Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan condemns arrests of Anakpawis nominee, church worker

Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned on Tuesday the recent arrests of Anakpawis Partylist fourth nominee Isabelo Adviento and Iglesia Filipina Independiente’s (IFI) Aldeem Yañez, as the group scored the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for their “desperate efforts to continue the Duterte administration’s campaigns of State terror and repression even …

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Rights groups renew calls for independent UN HRC investigation on rights crisis in PH in UPR submissions

In joint reports submitted last March 31, 2022 for the upcoming 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), various human rights groups renewed calls for the UN HRC to conduct an international independent investigation on the “human rights crisis” in the Philippines as “[m]ajority, if …

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2021 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Stats and Resources / By / January 28, 2026

Into the Final Year of the Tyrant Duterte: Continuing Fascism Met With People’s Resistance When Rodrigo Duterte took the presidency in 2016, he made two particular promises to the Filipino people: that “change is coming,” and that his term would be a bloody one. President Duterte’s promise of change was to continue the same anti-people …

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Karapatan sounds alarm over abducted and arrested NDFP peace consultants, urges resumption of peace talks

Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat Human rights watchdog Karapatan called for the surfacing of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants Edwin Alcid and Ezequiel Daguman as well as the release of Esteban Manuel Jr. and Ramon Patriarca, as the group called for the resumption of the peace talks between the government and the …

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