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KARAPATAN to CHR Chair: Pursue independent EJK probe in Negros

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN has asked Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc to look into reports that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have refused to cooperate with the CHR in Negros in the latter’s investigations into the killings of red-tagged farmers and other marginalized sectors …

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KARAPATAN to German, Czech governments: Raise continuing EJKs, injustice in PH in meetings with Marcos Jr.

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN called on the governments of Germany and the Czech Republic to raise grave concerns on the dire lack of accountability in the cases of extrajudicial killings, including that of Karapatan paralegal Zara Alvarez, and the continuing killings in the Philippines under the current administration, during the state visits of President Ferdinand …

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KARAPATAN’s 2023 Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Dear friends, We are sharing with you KARAPATAN’s 2023 Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines. After a year and a half in power, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has more and more epitomized the fascist and terrorist nature of his rule. On the one hand, he presents a carefully cultivated “presidential” image, never …

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Let us be one with the countless women of courage whose stories need telling

Tanggol Bayi salutes Filipino women activists who persist in the struggle for human rights, justice and accountability despite the prevalence of state-sponsored violence against them. In today’s forum “She Persists,” Tanggol Bayi features four outstanding young women activists who have defied the odds and survived repression through sheer courage, firmness of principle and the unstinting …

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Karapatan hails finality of acquittal of its nat’l officers, other rights defenders in perjury charge

Human rights alliance Karapatan welcomed the recent dismissal of the petition for certiorari filed by former and current National Security Advisers Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Eduardo Año questioning the acquittal last January 2023 of ten human rights defenders, including seven of Karapatan’s national officers, for perjury. In dismissing Esperon and Año’s petition, Quezon City Regional …

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Karapatan highlights attacks vs press freedom, freedom of expression for UN special rapporteur’s upcoming visit

Fourteen years after the Ampatuan massacre, rights group Karapatan said that the unabated attacks against journalists, media practitioners, and advocates of press freedom of opinion and expression be brought to the fore in the upcoming visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression come January 2024. “In all days, but especially …

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Karapatan renews call vs terrorist designation of rights defenders, reasserts call to junk terror law

Human rights alliance Karapatan joined other progressive formations today in a protest action in front of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in Quezon City to reassert calls to junk the Anti-Terrorism Act as they condemned the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) arbitrary designation of human rights defenders and political dissenters as “terrorists.” “As we have repeatedly asserted, …

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Karapatan on another round of dismissal of terror law cases vs Southern Tagalog activists

As the Office of the Prosecutor of Antipolo City dismisses the 59th Infantry Battalion’s complaint against youth activists Kenneth Rementilla and Jasmin Rubia using Republic Act 11479 or the Anti Terrorism Law, Karapatan reiterates its call for the urgent repeal of the terror law, as it is being used to violate the constitutional rights of …

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Karapatan urges PH Congress to push for ICC investigation

Human rights alliance Karapatan urged the House of Representatives (HOR) to throw its support behind resolutions pending before the body calling on the Marcos Jr. government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor in his bid to investigate killings related to the anti-drug war during Rodrigo Duterte’s mayoralty terms in Davao City and …

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