Member organization: Karapatan

Human rights alliance Karapatan slammed the prevalence of injustice and the rising number of extrajudicial killings under the administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte, as various groups marked International Human Rights Day through protest actions and other activities nationwide. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said the group has documented at least 17 cases …

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“The widespread opposition of the people should be enough reason for legislators to pull out the Maharlika wealth fund bill now, or they will definitely face public uproar over this brazen attempt to rake out public funds to advance their self-serving interests,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, as the group joined calls against the …

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Dear friends, We are releasing this statement by 64 organizations and 3 individuals on the judicial harassment against national leaders of Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela, in relation to the upcoming promulgation of the case of perjury filed by former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. at the Metropolitan Trial Court …

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In a protest action at the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency office on the 4th year of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), human rights alliance Karapatan reiterated its call for the abolition of the task force and slammed the bicameral conference committee for restoring the cuts to NTF-ELCAC’s PhP10-billion budget …

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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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