Member organization: Karapatan

On World Refugee Day, Karapatan demands the pull-out of AFP in communities in PH

On the occasion of World Refugee Day this June 20, Karapatan calls attention to the plight of the thousands of internal refugees in the Philippines displaced by the military’s incessant counter-insurgency campaigns in the countryside. Although they remain within the country’s borders, internally displaced persons (IDP) nonetheless suffer virtually the same physical and economic dislocation …

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High time to amend rule on writ of amparo, amidst failure to protect rights defenders, victims of rights violations – Karapatan

“It is high time to amend the Supreme Court rules on the writ of amparo, after several attempts to avail of the remedy have left embattled human rights defenders and victims of human rights more vulnerable to threats to their lives, security and liberty, amidst an already bleak state of human rights in the country.” …

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CHR, Congress urged to conduct urgent independent probe on massacre of peasant family in Negros

Human rights alliance Karapatan today called on the Commission on Human Rights to immediately conduct an independent investigation into the gruesome massacre of four members of the Fausto family in Sitio Kangkiling, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on June 14, 2023. Negros-based human rights groups and media have confirmed the killing of peasant activists …

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Karapatan: Cordillera ELCAC resolution violates right to freedom of association

Karapatan strongly condemns Resolution No. 2023-04 issued by the PTF-ELCAC (Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) of Kalinga province entitled “A Resolution Strongly Urging All Cities and Municipalities of Kalinga to Require All Entities Representing Themselves as Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) to Secure Permission from LGUs Concerned Before the Conduct of Any Activity …

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Karapatan: Marcos Jr.’s new DND, DOH secretaries were scraped from the bottom of the barrel

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has seemingly scraped the bottom of the proverbial barrel with his two newest appointees to his Cabinet — Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa. During Teodoro’s stint as Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s defense secretary from August 2007 to October 2009, Karapatan documented 181 extrajudicial killings, 24 enforced disappearances, 20 cases of …

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Rights group scores continuing international humanitarian law violations by AFP

Karapatan strongly condemns the continuing violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) perpetrated by State agents against civilians and hors de combat. In Bohol, National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Manuel “Ka Dodie” Tinio was shot seven times after he was arrested on April 14, 2023, while driving a motorcycle between San Miguel City and …

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Karapatan Statement on the International Week of the Disappeared

As the world observes the International Week of the Disappeared this last week of May 2023, we remember the countless victims of this grave injustice who have been arrested, detained, abducted, or forcibly deprived of liberty through other means, often by state agents or state-sanctioned entities. The victims are not surfaced, thus leaving families in …

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