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Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to stop harassing the widow of an onion farmer who testified at the Senate earlier this week that her husband committed suicide after sustaining insurmountable losses. According to Merlita …

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Karapatan is appalled at the resolution and views of the panel of prosecutors by the Justice Department on the murder complaint filed against 17 personnel of the Philippine National Police on the killing of trade union leader Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion. Asuncion is among the nine activists and indigenous peasants killed during the Bloody Sunday police …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for blocking efforts by an elderly couple to gain custody of their grandchild, who was abducted by soldiers two years ago. Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said the child’s grandmother Erlinda Tejome Salino and her husband had gone through the necessary legal procedures, …

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As families of union organizers Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dahoya welcomed them back yesterday, January 16, 2023, six days after their abduction at the Pier 6 in Cebu City, Karapatan Central Visayas released a video sent by a concerned citizen showing at least four men pushing and hauling Gumanao and Dahoya onboard a grey vehicle …

Karapatan hits pattern of abduction, coercion of activists and civilians under Marcos Jr. and Duterte admins Read More »

Human rights alliance Karapatan assailed the Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for its abduction and continued illegal detention of four individuals and branding them as “surrenderees.” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said Aurily Havana and Jennifer Binungkasan, women fighters of the New People’s Army who were pregnant when abducted …

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“Amidst Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s consecutive trips abroad, claims of an ‘internal cleansing’ in the Philippine National Police and reports of an alleged destabilization plot within the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the State’s attacks against activists, progressives and communities continue unabated,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, as the group sounded the alarm on reports …

New year marked with rights violations under Marcos Jr. – Karapatan Read More »

“The appointment of retired general Eduardo Año, whose military and government service record screams of a brutal record of human rights violations across administrations, is akin to a death sentence to many Filipinos,” said rights group Karapatan, as it slammed the appointment of Año as national security adviser, replacing Prof. Clarita Carlos. “We deplore his …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan slammed the continued detention of an ailing political prisoner who was illegally arrested on the basis of a warrant that does not contain his name, planted pieces of evidence and the perjured testimonies of police officers. Fifty-seven year old trade unionist Ernesto Jude C. Rimando Jr. was arrested at his rented …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights, especially in its capacity as the Gender and Development Ombud mandated by the Magna Carta of Women, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abductions of and violations on International Humanitarian Law against two pregnant New People’s Army fighters allegedly being held in custody by the …

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Human rights alliance Karapatan deplored the Marcos Jr. government’s latest appointments for secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND) and chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG of the Philippine National Police, saying their sordid records bode ill for the future of human rights in the country. Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay …

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