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Karapatan assails Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s rank hypocrisy and denialism on NTF-ELCAC’s abolition

Karapatan assails Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s rank hypocrisy and denialism in claiming that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should not be dismantled because it supposedly does not engage in red-tagging and is therefore not accountable for the ensuing human rights violations that red-tagging victims suffer. Marcos Jr. made the statement …

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Int’l people’s tribunal to hear cases of enforced disappearances

Jonila Castro’s testimony at the International People’s Tribunal speaks of one of the most alarming trends under the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.–that of the fast-growing number of enforced disappearances. From 20 victims of forced disappearances throughout Duterte’s six-year term, there are now 11 victims still missing less than two years into Marcos Jr.’s presidency. …

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KARAPATAN: Marcos Jr.’s new special committee,an attempt to window-dress dire rights situation in PH

Through Administrative Order No. 22, Malacanang has just created a “special committee on human rights coordination” in a desperate attempt to window-dress the grave human rights situation in the country. Touted as a new mechanism that comes after the UN Joint Program on human rights in the Philippines, Marcos Jr.’s human rights coordinating council is …

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KARAPATAN welcomes recent SC decision citing dangerous implications of redtagging

KARAPATAN views the recently published Supreme Court En Banc decision partially granting the writ of amparo of activist Siegfred Deduro as an important legal decision recognizing the dangerous consequences of red-tagging, vilification, and labelling. These dangerous practices of State security forces have long threatened the lives, security and liberty of scores of human rights activists, …

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KARAPATAN: Marcos Jr.’s new special committee, an attempt to window-dress dire rights situation in PH

Through Administrative Order No. 22, Malacanang has just created a “special committee on human rights coordination” in a desperate attempt to window-dress the grave human rights situation in the country. Touted as a new mechanism that comes after the UN Joint Program on human rights in the Philippines, Marcos Jr.’s human rights coordinating council is …

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KARAPATAN denounces freezing of Leyte NGO’s bank accounts

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN decried the recent freezing of the bank accounts of a multi-awarded development non-government organization based in Leyte province. In an order dated May 2, 2024, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered the Tacloban branches of PSBank and Metropolitan Bank to freeze the accounts of the Leyte Center for Development Inc. (LCDe), …

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KARAPATAN decries NTF-ELCAC’s continued victim-blaming, attacks vs two women environmental defenders

KARAPATAN deplores continuing attempts by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to vilify Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, both survivors of abduction, torture, enforced disappearance, coercion and other crimes perpetrated by state agents. Jonila and Jhed are environmental activists and community organizers affiliated with AKAP KA-Manila Bay who were kidnapped …

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