Human rights alliance Karapatan renewed calls for the release of an NDFP consultant, his wife, and their companion whose trumped-up case for illegal possession of firearms and explosives is scheduled for promulgation on February 27, 2023. Frank Fernandez, his wife Cleofe Lagtapon and their companion Ge-Ann Perez were arrested at around 12:30 a.m. on March …
Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) designation of Dr. Natividad “Doc Naty” Castro, a community health worker and a former human rights worker of Karapatan, as a “terrorist individual.” In a resolution dated December 7, 2022, but released to the public only yesterday, January 30, 2023, the ATC claimed there was probable …
Human rights alliance Karapatan decried the latest round of arrests that have victimized seven Cordillera activists and an elderly couple on trumped-up charges. Yesterday, January 30, 2022, Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) staff Jennifer Awingan was arrested at her home after being served a warrant on rebellion charges. Also named in the warrant are CPA Regional …
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Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the recent raids by South Korean government forces in the offices of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union’s (KHMU), Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), among others. Starting January 18, 2023, operatives of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the …
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The decision of the International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial chamber to resume investigations into the drug war killings plus the findings of the International Labor Organization’s high level tripartite mission on the attacks against working people’s freedom of association and the right to organize that come on top of continuing reports on violations of human rights …
Human rights alliance Karapatan said that Philippine Army 1001st Brigade commander Gen. Jesus Durante III and soldiers under hisacimmediately prosecuted under civilian courts, as the group urged for an independent investigation on other possible violations of the said men. On January 25, 2023, the special investigation task group of the Philippine National Police office in …
The abductors of Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha violated multiple provisions under Section 4 of RA 9745, otherwise known as the Anti-Torture Act of 2009. Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), as the group accompanied Gumanao, Dayoha and their parents in a meeting with CHR Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc, to …
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QUEZON CITY — “State security forces, from the regional to the national level, should be held accountable for the abduction and disappearance of Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha, under the Anti-Enforced Disappearance Law,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, as they expressed support for the couple’s call for justice on their ordeal. Palabay said that …
The counterinsurgency program that is being implemented by the Marcos Jr. administration, which it continues from previous regimes including the Duterte government, through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has resulted in gross violations on the working people’s right to life and to their freedom of association and right to …
Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Supreme Court and local courts to conduct a review or audit of cases and possibly apply to long-detained political prisoners the same ruling that led to the release on bail of Atty. Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile’s former chief of staff. Reyes faces plunder charges …
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