Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri’s attempt to feign ignorance on the continuing human rights violations and the utter lack of justice and accountability in the Philippines reeks of insensitivity and brazen disregard of the sordid plight of thousands of victims of extrajudicial killings and human rights violations and their kin. Senator Zubiri was way out …
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Karapatan welcomes the concluding observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Philippines, including its significant views on red-tagging, the Anti-Terrorism Act, extrajudicial killings in the government’s war on drugs, among other pressing issues on human rights in the Philippines. The Committee’s recommendations to put an end to extrajudicial killings of suspected drug …
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In October 2022, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla led the government delegation during the fifth periodic review of the Philippines by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland. The result was just as expected. On November 4, the UN Human Rights Committee released its concluding observations, calling out the Philippine government on its …
Human rights group Karapatan slammed Apayao Provincial Governor Elias Bulut, Jr. for issuing “an official order that may potentially be used to drive and encourage the commission of extrajudicial killings.” In an executive order dated September 30, 2022 Bulut offered reward money of P100,000 for anyone who “captures, arrests or kills in a legitimate military …
Rights group Karapatan condemned the arrest of trade union activist Benjamin Cordero, the most recent in what they believed to be another round of attacks against trade union activists and workers’s rights defenders. According to initial reports from Karapatan Metro Manila, Cordero was arrested at past 11:00pm on October 26, 2022 in his home in …
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Rights group Karapatan denounced the most recent disinformation campaigns and wholesale red-tagging against journalists and human rights defenders in the Philippines, and said that such acts violate and impact on the exercise of press freedom and freedom of expression in the country. “We call on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and …
The appointment of former chief of the Philippine National Police Camilo Cascolan as Department of Health (DoH) undersecretary is both a grave insult to the thousands of victims of extrajudicial killings in the Duterte administration’s sham drug war and a rip-off from the playbook of his father and Rodrigo Duterte, when they militarized civilian bureaucracy …
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Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the stepped up State encroachment on civilians’ right to privacy and against increasing threats, amid reports of so-called “visits” to homes or offices of journalists. Over the weekend, a number of journalists were alarmed by unannounced visits to their homes by alleged Philippine National Police personnel, who were purportedly checking …
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Karapatan today reiterated its support for the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), as the lawyers’ group filed a manifestation urging the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeals’ decision dismissing their petition for the writ of amparo and habeas data which was filed in 2019. “While it is laudable that the Supreme Court …
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We hope that the independent human rights experts of the UN Human Rights Committee will see through the warped logic of Justice Secretary Boying Remulla on his statements regarding redtagging. Redtagging especially of State forces and their adjuncts has dire consequences on persons, families, organizations and communities – killings, arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, torture, enforced …
