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Young human rights defender to Kitty Duterte: Your father is a butcher, not a victim

“Berdugo ang tatay mo, hindi biktima (Your father is a butcher, not a victim).” KARAPATAN lambasted Veronica “Kitty” Duterte for portraying her father as a victim despite the fact that he was responsible for the misery of tens of thousands of people under his war on drugs and his brutal counter-insurgency war. “We all know …

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No to another term for Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go -SELDA

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, is resolutely against another Senate term for Duterte minions Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Christopher “Bong” Go. Bato dela Rosa and Bong Go have toadied to their master Rodrigo Duterte for decades, publicly supporting his repressive policies that have …

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Martial law survivors: No to Imee’s second term at the Senate

The Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) strongly opposes a second term for Imee Marcos at the Senate. Imee Marcos, an unabashed apologist for her dictator-father, believes, contrary to historical fact, that martial law is a panacea to the country’s ills, including high rice prices. When confronted with martial law atrocities, however, …

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Año, NTF-ELCAC are advancing the State’s terrorist agenda

Claiming that the armed insurgency is nearing defeat, National Security Adviser and NTF-ELCAC vice chair Eduardo Año has broadcast his agency’s intentions to inflict the final blow by escalating the persecution of what they view as the legal infrastructure of the armed revolution. Año made these pronouncements in an article entitled “An Insurgency-Free Philippines is …

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KARAPATAN: Reject pro-Marcos, pro-Duterte candidates and elect progressives

Karapatan called on the public to reject senatorial candidates who have been rabidly advancing the self-serving and corrupt interests of the Marcos and Duterte cliques and elect progressive candidates and partylist groups with proven track records of standing for the people’s democratic interests. The human rights alliance viewed with alarm recent survey results showing that …

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KARAPATAN: Recent Marcos memo is a blueprint for increased repression

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recently issued Memorandum Circular No. 83, which adopts and orders the immediate implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for Unity, Peace and Development 2025-2028, is a blueprint for intensified political repression as it calls for strengthening the notorious National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), amid mounting calls …

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KARAPATAN on World Press Freedom Day 2025: Stop the attacks vs journos, media workers

KARAPATAN is in solidarity with Filipino journalists and media workers as they mark World Press Freedom Day today, the 3rd of May 2025. Filipino media workers and journalists continue to be under attack by State forces, with the latest cases involving the weaponization of laws against media practitioners. Tacloban City-based community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio …

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Five years after, kin of EJK victims renew call for justice for Jory Porquia

Hustisya, an organization of families of victims of extrajudicial killings and all human rights violations, remembers with outrage the brutal killing of Bayan Muna-Iloilo coordinator Jory Porquia who was shot 14 times in his rented cottage in Iloilo City in the early morning of April 30, 2020. Forty-two activists who staged an indignation rally a …

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