Human rights alliance Karapatan takes exception to the Marcos Jr. government’s recently announced amnesty program for its failure to recognize and address the social, political and economic roots of the armed conflict in the Philippines. Instead, its focus is on surrender, totally ignoring why persons have resorted to taking up arms in the first place. …
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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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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Karapatan welcomes the dismissal of trumped up charges under RA 11479 and RA 9851 against young human rights defender Hailey Pecayo. The dismissal of the complaints of soldiers of the 59th Infantry Battalion by Office of the City Prosecutor in Sta. Rosa, Laguna exposes the fabricated lies against Pecayo and other respondents and that such …
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A barbed wire fence reminiscent of Martial Law materialized at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani as a stark reminder of the dark period in our history that was the US-Marcos regime. “Barbed-wire fences are part of our collective memory of Martial Law that separated the fascist and elitist government from the people who endured imprisonment, …
Karapatan lauds the exit statement of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Dr. Ian Fry calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL), among other pertinent climate and human rights issues which he …
Karapatan to UN SR on Climate Change and Human Rights: Address “dangerous situation” of envi defenders, communities in PH MANILA — As surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro face the perjury charges filed against them by their abductors, rights alliance Karapatan called on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human …
