The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, decried the skewed and disproportionate fiscal priorities of the Marcos Jr. administration in its proposals for the national budget for 2024, as it pointed out that the meager budget allocation for prisons remains at subhuman levels. “Nelson Mandela, a …
Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Anonas Police Station to “stop hiding behind their fake concern for the environment and public health” as the group called for the junking of the complaint filed by Police Staff Sergeant Mario Sembrano and Police Corporal Paolo Navarro against against progressive artist Max Santiago and three staff of …
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Photo from Bulatlat Karapatan condemns in the strongest terms the reported brutal killing of a Moro farmer by elements of the 38th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) and Task Force Gensan in Barangay Tambilil, Kiamba, Sarangani province last July 27, 2023. Alvin Ponto, a 52-year-old abaca farmer, was cooking breakfast in his family’s hut …
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Photo by Darren Langit/Rappler “The new national security policy (NSP) further enables threats, including redtagging and vilification, against rights defenders and activists,” said human rights alliance Karapatan, as it condemned the recent spate of incidents following Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s approval of the NSP 2023-2028. Warning that the NSP, signed on August 10, 2023 …
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Photo by Lucky Dela Rosa/Philippine Collegian August 16, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing by policemen in Navotas City of a minor two weeks ago even as it decried the absence of justice in the killings of its human rights worker Zara Alvarez and peace consultant Randall Echanis. Seventeen-year-old Jemboy Baltazar was shot …
Photo from Amihan August 15, 2023 The issuance by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2023-2028 bodes ill for the people’s human rights and signals the further escalation of bombings and other grave violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). Already, the issuance of the NSP, whose avowed purpose is to “address national …
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Photo from Bulatlat August 5, 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan lambasted the Marcos Jr. administration’s proposal to increase the president’s travel funds, and the continued allocation of confidential funds in the offices of the president and vice president. “The Marcos Jr. government’s callousness and ruthlessness are beyond belief, amid the people’s clear demands to at …
Two human rights defenders scored former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. for attempting to violate their right against double jeopardy by calling on the Regional Trial Court to reverse their acquittal for perjury last January 2023. Elisa Tita Lubi, chairperson of human rights alliance Karapatan, and Sr. Elenita Belardo, RGS of the Rural Missionaries …
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Karapatan welcomes the acquittal of Reina Mae Nasino, Alma Moran and Ram Bautista on trumped up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. The decision of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 47 Judge John Benedict Medina regarding the case bears out the assertion of the three activists – that they had no guns or …
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A human rights activist charged with indirect contempt by a private lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206. Calling the indirect contempt charges “frivolous,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said that she seeks the court’s immediate dismissal of the said charges against her, former Sen. …
