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National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., also vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), took the witness stand yesterday, December 20, 2021, at the trial on his perjury charges against officials of human rights group Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), and Gabriela at the Quezon …

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We in Karapatan Alliance Philippines convey our congratulations to Maria Ressa, as she receives the Nobel Peace Prize today, on the occasion of the 73rd International Human Rights Day.

Human rights alliance Karapatan expressed dismay on Thursday over the reported Supreme Court en banc’s decision to retain the “draconian” provisions of Republic Act No.

Human rights alliance Karapatan joined various groups and formations in calling on all Filipinos to “unite for justice and democracy and to stand against tyranny and dictatorship” in the coming mass actions to mark the last International Human Rights Day under the Duterte administration, especially amid the looming announcement of the Supreme Court en banc’s …

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Rights group Karapatan urged the Court of Appeals to act on the petition for the writ of habeas corpus filed by the wife of missing peasant advocate and activist Steve Abua, and stressed the need for state accountability on abduction and enforced disappearances.

In a symbolic activity at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on December 8, two days before the International Human Rights Day, human rights group Karapatan called on presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the upcoming 2022 elections to put a stop to extrajudicial killings in the counterinsurgency and drug war campaigns of the Duterte administration, …

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For the past three years, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) “has only proven itself to be a weapon by President Rodrigo Duterte in his desperate bid to crush dissent and terrorize the Filipino people,” human rights alliance Karapatan said on Monday, as the group reasserted its call for the …

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