Let me convey my gratitude for the opportunity to respond to baseless allegations and malicious innuendoes hurled at me by the AFP and their patrons. Immediately after abducting me in my hometown, this government has kept me incommunicado by transferring me from one detention cell to another across the seas until finally jailing me …
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A National Solidarity Mission (NSM) kicks off today as representatives of various national people’s organizations, progressive partylist organizations and human rights groups fly to Davao City to join other human rights workers, peace advocates in Mindanao. The National Solidarity Mission is set to investigate rights abuses committed against peasants and indigenous peoples specifically in Davao …
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An environmentalist and anti-mining activist Romeo Rivera Jr., 53, now face at least four criminal charges filed against Felix Armodia, allegedly the Front Secretary of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army in Davao del Sur, South Cotabato, and Tulunan, North Cotabato.
Political prisoner Eduardo Serrano testified yesterday at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 97 to refute the false charges of kidnapping for ransom case filed against him. Serrano is the last witness slated to testify before the court finally resolves the case. Eduardo Serrano is among the 14 peace consultants of the National Democratic …
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"Try harder in defending your human rights record, Pres. Aquino,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, “because the people know the real score of the human rights situation in the country under your regime. And, with the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement now signed, the human rights situation is bound to get worse before it gets …
“With the aim to dissipate people’s anger around the world, the master war-monger US President Barack Obama and his puppet Philippine President Benigno Aquino desperately attempts to place out of sight its war agenda by using the all-too-familiar shroud of“anti-corruption, pro-peace and human rights” slogans. The catch phrases, the two expect, would lend a veneer …
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Dapat papanagutin ang gubyernong B.S. Aquino sa 1,300 na kasong paglabag sa Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) laban sa Talaingod-Pantaron Manobo sa Davao del Norte. Maaari pang lumobo ang kasong paglabag sa 2,300 kapag na beripika ang dokumentasyon ng munisipyong Talaingod sa bilang ng mga bakwit na Talaingod-Pantaron …
"The visit of US Pres. Barack Obama to the Philippines, especially to address and hobnob with the Philippine military, is a reaffirmation of support for the Aquino government’s gross human rights violations,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said days before the US president sets foot on Philippine soil for a state visit. "Through its increasing …
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“The GPH cannot escape the fact that the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) is operative and JASIG-protected persons are immune from arrests, including recently arrested NDFP consultant Wilma Austria Tiamzon,” declared Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.
"With the four-country visit of US Pres. Barack Obama, he is virtually stamping Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines a ‘US property’ seal on the world map," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said. "Many of the peoples of these nations are now geared up to protest US Pres. Obama ‘unfriendly’ visit," Palabay announced.
