Karapatan condemns shooting incident vs indigenous Manobo-Pulangiyon during meeting with presidential, senatorial candidates
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Karapatan supports call for denial of PGMA’s motion to dismiss by demurrer in Morong 43 civil case
Photo by Michael Varcas/Philippine Star Seven of the forty-three health workers known as the Morong 43 filed yesterday their opposition to the motion to dismiss by way of demurrer of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in their civil complaint which was filed on April 5, 2011 at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 224.
Karapatan condemns arrests of Anakpawis nominee, church worker
Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned on Tuesday the recent arrests of Anakpawis Partylist fourth nominee Isabelo Adviento and Iglesia Filipina Independiente’s (IFI) Aldeem Yañez, as the group scored the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for their “desperate efforts to continue the Duterte administration’s campaigns of State terror and repression even …
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Karapatan calls on Meta to take down NTF-ELCAC Facebook pages for disinformation, inciting harm amid upcoming elex
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Rights groups renew calls for independent UN HRC investigation on rights crisis in PH in UPR submissions
In joint reports submitted last March 31, 2022 for the upcoming 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), various human rights groups renewed calls for the UN HRC to conduct an international independent investigation on the “human rights crisis” in the Philippines as “[m]ajority, if …
2021 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
Into the Final Year of the Tyrant Duterte: Continuing Fascism Met With People’s Resistance When Rodrigo Duterte took the presidency in 2016, he made two particular promises to the Filipino people: that “change is coming,” and that his term would be a bloody one. President Duterte’s promise of change was to continue the same anti-people …
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NTF-ELCAC in the business of valorizing criminals, rights violators with Palparan’s SMNI interview
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Junking of trumped-up charges vs Dr. Naty Castro exposes pattern of criminalization vs human rights defenders, dissenters
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Mothers of disappeared UP students: Badoy’s Palparan interview “a travesty of justice”
Mothers of disappeared UP students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan called “a travesty of justice” yesterday’s interview of NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Lorraine Badoy of convicted retired general Jovito Palparan, but at the same time called it “a cheap, desperate attempt to vindicate criminals and rights violators.” “It is nauseating, to say the least, to see Palparan …
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