Member organization: Karapatan

KARAPATAN strongly condemns the United States’ military aggression against Venezuela, a grave crime of aggression against the Venezuelan people, which is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the fundamental principles of the Venezuelan people’s right to national sovereignty and self-determination. The bombing of civilian and military areas in Caracas and nearby states has …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN warned of increased violations of people’s rights particularly in rural communities, with the newly enacted 2026 national budget, which it denounced as a “massive pork barrel scheme and a continuing source of corruption, rights violations, and fascism.” “The retention of funding for bodies such as the National Task Force to End …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN condemned the aerial strafings and bombings carried out by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro on New Year’s Day, and called for the cessation of State operations that endanger civilian lives and devastate communities, including communities and farms of indigenous people. According to local …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan called for release of Ryan Ombrog, a 28-year-old factory worker and resident of Barangay Maysan, Valenzuela City, one of the more than 200 individuals arrested and detained during the September 21 anti-corruption protests in Manila, who was re-arrested more than a week ago. Ombrog was re-arrested on December 23, 2025 and …

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Human rights alliance KARAPATAN strongly condemned the killing of Warlita Jimenez, a 55-year-old woman farmer-leader, on December 23 in Sitio Makilo, Barangay Camansi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. “While families marked the Christmas season and gathered in celebration, and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spews words of hypocrisy to ‘not to forget the poor, the sick, victims of …

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KARAPATAN welcomed the affirmation by the Supreme Court of the conviction of three policemen for the extrajudicial killing of 17-year old Kian delos Santos, but said that the real masterminds of the policy of extrajudicial killings in the so-called drug war must be meted justice as well. Kian was killed in an anti-drug operation in …

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KARAPATAN assailed the affirmation by the Court of Appeals 21st Division of what the human rights alliance called the “unjust decision” on the trumped up charges against former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro and 11 others. The denial of the appeal of Ocampo, Castro and their 11 co-accused, collectively …

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KARAPATAN decried the ”unrelenting” human rights violations against activists in Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas and Southern Tagalog the past few weeks. The latest incident, said KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, involved the unjust arrest on December 20, 2025 of Carmilo Tabada, former staff of Central Visayas Farmers’ Development Center (FARDEC). Tabada was arrested at his …

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Pilipino The Filipino people will take to the streets once again on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to denounce the Marcos Jr. regime’s growing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) and rage against the large-scale bureaucratic corruption that now marks this government as among the most rotten in the country’s history. …

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