Former Karapatan SOCSKSARGEN chapter deputy secretary general Ali Macalintal, also a former radio broadcaster of RPN XDX, was reportedly shot dead today, June 23, 2025. According to reports by local media, Macalintal was shot several times inside an acupuncture clinic in General Santos City. Macalintal, also a member of the LGBTQIA community, coorganized and participated …
A coordinator of Rise Up for Life and for Rights, a group of church workers and families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the “drug war,” expressed support for the recommendation of UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan for the Philippines to return to the International Criminal Court. United Methodist …
The Philippine UPR Watch, a network of faith-based and human rights organizations engaging with the UN Human Rights Council, said that the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict’s (NTF-ELCAC) official statement on the report of Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan is replete with lies. “The NTF-ELCAC’s …
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Karapatan condemned the US bombardment of three nuclear sites in Iran on June 22, 2025, in an ill-disguised move to trigger regime change in the staunchly anti-imperialist country. “US claims of preventing Iran from manufacturing nuclear weapons fall flat in the face of an assessment by US Pres. Donald Trump’s own intelligence chief that Iran …
Eight individuals collectively referred to as the Bunawan 8, were arrested on June 13, 2025 in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur by elements of the 66th and 67th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, and elements of the Bunawan Municipal Police. They were on board two vehicles traveling from Monkayo, Davao de Oro when they were …
GENEVA — Human rights defenders from the Philippine UPR Watch submitted an urgent letter of allegation to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, denouncing the intensifying weaponization of counterterrorism laws to attack religious groups, development organizations, and human rights defenders in the …
Rights group KARAPATAN called anew for the release of three detained activists in Tacloban City after the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression cited their cases as “emblematic of a wider pattern in cases involving red-tagging.” “We demand that the Marcos Jr. government immediately take action to release KARAPATAN human rights worker Alexander …
KARAPATAN condemned the arrest of five peasants and fisherfolk who resisted the violent demolition of more than 100 houses in their community in Barangay Taltal in Masinloc, Zambales, June 19. The demolition crew, composed of 50 police elements of Masinloc Municipal Police Station and led by a local sheriff, was sent at the behest of …
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“While efforts to create a diligent and science-based system in the investigation of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations are important, let us not lose sight of the fact that for years, the justice system itself has failed the victims of such crimes. In the context of continuing killings and impunity under Marcos Jr., …
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Karapatan condemned the harassment of relatives of victims of the Bloody Sunday Massacre, who reported that they received unwanted calls and visits from state agents pressuring them against filing cases against the assailants or to withdraw any cases they have already filed. The Bloody Sunday massacre was a region-wide dragnet on March 7, 2021 where …
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