Media Releases
Int’l rights groups call for justice for Tumandok massacre, arbitrary arrest victims in Capiz, Iloilo
Submitted on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 02:53
More than a hundred human rights and indigenous peoples’ organizations from the international community condemned the extrajudicial
SC oral arguments on ‘terror law’: Karapatan expresses support to petitioners’ lawyers, firmly stands with Aetas victimized
Submitted on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 13:14
Days before the Supreme Court oral arguments on the broadly opposed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, human rights group Karapatan expresse
Killing spree of human rights defenders continues with murder of peasant organizer in Bicol, activist in Camarines Sur
Submitted on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 12:23
Human rights watchdog Karapatan said “there seems to be no end in sight for the killing spree of human rights defenders” as the group condemned the killings of peasant organizer Lorenzo Paña and activist Aldrin Enriquez. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay stated that “even the last days of 2020 were marked by killings and massacres — and now, merely days into 2021, another activist has been murdered by the police and military.”
Karapatan: Año red-tags victims of Baras massacre to cover up the military’s war crimes
Submitted on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:56
Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año is “red-tagging the five farmworkers massacred by the military in Baras, Rizal in an evidently desperate effort to cover up the military’s cold-blooded war crimes
Karapatan calls on CHR to probe the tokhang style-killings, arrests in IP communities in Panay
Submitted on Thu, 12/31/2020 - 05:40Human rights watchdog Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the reported killings of nine indigenous Tumandok leaders and the arrests of 17 others in joint military and police operations in Tapaz, Capiz and Calinog, Iloilo — many of whom have been ceaselessly red-tagged by the military for their vocal opposition to militarization in their communities and, in recent years, the construction of the Jalaur Mega Dam project.
On the killing of Sonya Gregorio and Frank Anthony Gregorio
Submitted on Mon, 12/21/2020 - 14:39
That we have come to this — the cold-blooded and merciless murder of mother Sonya Gregorio and son Frank Anthony Gregorio in full vi
Karapatan hits killing of red-tagged doctor, husband in Negros Oriental
Submitted on Wed, 12/16/2020 - 11:39
Human rights group Karapatan condemned on Wednesday, December 16, the killing of a city health officer and her husband in Guihulngan
Karapatan on the ICC-OTP Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2020 on the Philippines
Submitted on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 10:56
The International Criminal Court - Office of the Prosecutor’s (ICC-OTP) finding in its report on preliminary examination activities
Crackdown in PH on IHRD 2020: Duterte makes a mockery of International Human Rights Day with arrest of journalist, six trade un
Submitted on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 17:59
We never thought that the fascist Duterte regime and its minions could be this shameless and desperate to prove outright that they are rabid and notorio
Resist and end Duterte’s bloody reign of State terror
Submitted on Wed, 12/09/2020 - 23:40
Unfazed by lockdown restrictions, human rights alliance Karapatan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan led thousands of human rights advocates, civil libertar
