Member organization: Karapatan

Human rights alliance Karapatan reiterated calls for an end to the criminalization of dissent and the release of all political prisoners in the country, as it marked the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners on December 3, 2022. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that there are hundreds of political prisoners in various detention …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan today decried the guilty verdict of Baguio City Regional Trial Court Branch 59 against Cordillera People’s Alliance Secretary General Sarah Dekdeken in the cyber libel charges against her by former Cordillera Police Chief R’win Pagkalinawan, as the group said that her case is “proof that cyber libel and libel laws in …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan today called on the Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent investigation into the reported summary execution of peasant advocate Ericson Acosta, a writer and consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, and his companion, peasant organizer Joseph Jimenez of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, in Kabankalan City, …

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This year’s commemoration of the 159th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio Day should be taken as an opportunity to re-learn and live out our people’s history — that the struggle for national independence and against all forms of oppression by foreign powers and the local ruling classes is a struggle for human rights and dignity …

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In a hearing of the Committee on Human Rights of the House of Representatives today, November 29, 2022, Karapatan cited the strong recommendations of various member States of the UN General Assembly for the enactment of a legislation for the protection of human rights defenders and on the attacks against activists in the Philippines, during …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan took strong exception to claims by the Philippine National Police that the recent conviction of a Caloocan City policeman for torture and planting of evidence in relation a five-year old drug war-related killing forms proof that “the Philippine justice system is working.” The murder cases filed against the policeman, PO1 Jeffrey …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the billions of pesos of “confidential and intelligence funds” (CIF) being allocated to a number of government agencies even as much-needed social services and projects lack funding and the country is reeling from a gargantuan national debt of PhP10.13 trillion. The group renewed its call to reallocate such funds to …

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Thirteen years since 58 persons, including 32 media workers were mercilessly killed in Maguindanao, the need to commemorate the single biggest attack against journalists in Philippine history is more urgent than ever. Recent history gives us ample proof that threats and attacks against journalists and the right to free speech have not abated, and have …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan said that the Philippine government should issue standing invitations for all UN Special Procedures, especially the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, independence of lawyers and judges, and right to health, to conduct official investigations on reports of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in …

Karapatan to Remulla-PH gov’t should issue standing invitations to UN SR on EJKs, others to investigate killings and all rights Read More »