Karapatan renews call on Ombudsman to act on complaints vs NTF-ELCAC officials over red-tagging
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Duterte’s kill-kill-kill policy through NTF-ELCAC led to Bloody Sunday killings, arrests
“If there’s an encounter and you see them armed, kill, kill them, don’t mind human rights, I will be the one to go to prison, I don’t have qualms.” President Rodrigo Duterte was quoted saying these orders to the police and military in a meeting in Cagayan de Oro City of the National Task Force …
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Initial reaction on the dev’ts in the investigation on the Bloody Sunday killings
The Department of Justice’s recommendation to file a murder complaint against the perpetrators in the killing of labor leader Manny Asuncion is a welcome action. All victims of the Bloody Sunday raids deserve no less than justice. Those who remain imprisoned such as human rights worker Nimfa Lanzanas should be released, and we continue to …
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Karapatan asserts rights-based agenda in 2022 elex
Ahead of International Human Rights Day, various groups led by Karapatan gave their final verdict on the Duterte administration’s atrocious human rights record in a press conference today, as they asserted that a rights-based agenda should be at the forefront of the campaigns in the national elections next year, especially with the alliance of despotic …
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On Bonifacio Day, Karapatan calls on candidates for the 2022 elex to address the needs of the toiling masses
Today, as we commemorate the 158th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, we remember the heroic revolutionary struggle of the Katipunan, which Bonifacio led, for the liberation of the Filipino people from Spanish colonialism, as we salute the modern-day heroism of ordinary Filipinos in asserting their rights and welfare, especially amid the crisis brought by the …
On VP Leni Robredo’s statement on the NTF-ELCAC and the AFP’s whole-of-nation approach in its “anti-insurgency” campaign
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat Karapatan expresses our disappointment over Vice President Leni Robredo’s statement supporting the “functions and mandates” of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the whole-of-nation approach of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in its counterinsurgency campaign.
Karapatan to Calamba court: Release elderly human rights worker Nimfa Lanzanas
Karapatan today expressed disappointment over the Calamba City Regional Trial Court Branch 37’s denial of elderly human rights worker Nimfa Lanzanas’ omnibus motion to quash search warrants and suppress evidence in a resolution released on November 24, 2021.
On the acquittal of Cora Agovida and Michael Bartolome
Karapatan welcomes today’s acquittal of women’s rights activist Cora Agovida and urban poor organizer Michael Bartolome from trumped-up charges against them by State forces at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19.
Karapatan on the 12th year after the Ampatuan massacre
Photo from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Karapatan joins the families of the 58 victims in remembering their loved ones today, on the 12th year of the Ampatuan massacre wherein media practitioners and civilians were murdered in a single incident. We likewise join the family of Reynaldo Momay, the 58th victim whose …
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