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“And so this is justice under Aquino —  torturers are given plum positions in the military, and the rich, powerful and notorious human rights violators like Palparan and Arroyo are mockingly free as preying vultures. No wonder, Noynoy deliberately omitted anything on human rights and peace in his SONA, a tacit and dangerous signal for …

Aquino’s warped sense of justice: GMA freed, torturer promoted, impunity ignored Read More »

Karapatan said that yesterday’s 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA) only proved how Noynoy Aquino regards, or more aptly, disregards human rights. Cristina Palabay, spokesperson of Karapatan, said that, “the police brutality that was used against the demonstrators and Aquino’s deafening silence on the increasing number of extrajudicial killings and intensifying military operations that …

Post SONA: Noynoy Aquino, zero on human rights on two counts Read More »

With two years of presidency and three State of the Nation Address (SONA), Pres. Noynoy Aquino has only peddled lies on the human rights situation in the Philippines. He has been, in fact, inflicting terror and violence against the Filipino people. The second year of the Aquino administration is being punctuated with shamelessly deceptive slogans …

Lies, terror and violence in Aquino’s 3rd SONA Read More »

A day before Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA), Karapatan and SELDA today launched via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnCjfcdJ-vY&feature=youtu.be a call out video for flash mob as part of the campaign to release all political prisoners. Following yesterday’s launch of the “Awit ng mga Detenidong Pulitikal,” by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), members of …

Karapatan, SELDA calls on flash mob dancers for political prisoners’ freedom Read More »

Eight Bishops from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) expressed support to the ongoing hunger strike/fasting of political prisoners. In a statement, the Bishops urged Pres. Noynoy Aquino “to consider the plight of political detainees under his administration and their call for a general, unconditional and omnibus amnesty.”

A week before Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), political prisoners from Luzon to Mindanao are conducting a one-week fast  to push the call for the release of all political prisoners.  “It has been two years since we started to campaign and lobby for the release of political prisoners who are in …

Karapatan chides Noynoy Aquino to stop acting like there are no political prisoners Read More »

With his two years of presidency and three State of the Nation Address (SONA), Pres. Noynoy Aquino has already done his own version of “unsheathing the sword of war” and has no more pretensions about it.  

As the human rights group expresses its condemnation on the recent extrajudicial killing (EJK) of Willem Geertman, Karapatan today said that the human rights situation in the country under the Aquino administration has gone worse.   Cristina Palabay, spokesperson of Karapatan said the rights group has documented 95 victims of extrajudicial killings (EJK) from July …

No fun for rights workers and people in PH Read More »