Member organization: Karapatan

Marcos Jr. endangering Filipinos by serving US strategic interests – Karapatan

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s upcoming meeting in Washington with US President Joe Biden will further deepen the unequal relations between the two governments, to the detriment of the Filipino people’s interest. Marcos Jr. does the US’ bidding in ensuring the US’ strategic military and political interests in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing US troops …

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Karapatan welcomes CHR probe of Tiamzons’ killing, urges investigation of other war crimes

Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the announcement by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that it will investigate allegations that National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon were tortured and intentionally killed by the military, adding that it will be doing so in accordance with its mandate and duty to …

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Karapatan condemns killing of NDFP consultant Rogelio Posadas, disappearance of 3 others

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing of National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Negros peace consultant Rogelio Posadas, 56, who was allegedly slain in an encounter with the military on April 20, 2023 in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental. Posadas was reported missing on the evening of April 19 when he failed to show up at his …

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Karapatan condemns brutal killing of Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and companions, calls for independent probe

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the brutal killing of Benito Tiamzon, peacetalks panel member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP peace consultant Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and eight companions. The Tiamzons’ death along with eight others on August 21, 2022 was confirmed in a special issue of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) …

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Duterte term-ender and 2022 Marcos Jr year-end report

Publications, Stats and Resources / By / March 13, 2024

Duterte term-ender report – Rodrigo Duterte and His Crass Legacy of Mass Murder and State TerrorThe Rodrigo Duterte regime ended in June 2022, in what seemed to be the longest six years in the recent history of the people’s movement’s advancement of human rights and justice in the Philippines.Duterte had left an indelible legacy of …

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Karapatan: No justice from Marcos Jr.’s justice department

Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the latest decision from the Department of Justice (DOJ) absolving the 17 policemen accused in the murder of activist couple Ariel Evangelista and Ana Mariz “Chai” Evangelista. Ariel and Chai Evangelista were among the nine individuals slain in a region-wide dragnet by the Philippine National Police in several Southern Tagalog …

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Surface sugar workers Alfred Manalo and Lloyd Descallar – Karapatan

Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to help in the efforts to locate, surface and ensure the safety of two volunteers from Sugarfolks Unity for Genuine Agricultural Reform (SUGAR)-Batangas who were reported abducted by unidentified armed men around 3:00 p.m. on March 26, 2023. Sugar workers Alfred Manalo and …

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