Reports
2018 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:382016 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Thu, 03/09/2017 - 12:37
As soon as Rodrigo Duterte became the evident winner in the last presidential elections, the public shut off BS Aquino from their minds and turned their attention to Duterte who espoused “change” during his electoral campaign. BS Aquino had been a dead weight on the shoulders of the Filipino people in the past six years. Never mind if up to the last minute, he acted under the illusion that he was the guardian of democracy like no other.
Read full text here: https://www.karapatan.org/2016+Human+Rights+Report
ALTERNATIVE REPORT ON THE PHILIPPINES
submitted on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 13:402015 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 13:56On June 30, 2016, Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the 15th president of the Government of the Philippines, steps down from Malacañang. Plagued as it is with cases of bureaucratic corruption, criminal negligence, inept leadership, sell-out of the nation’s sovereignty, the BS Aquino presidency also leaves behind an atrocious record of human rights violations, which he continues to ignore to this day.
Karapatan Monitor 2015 Issue No. 2
submitted on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 17:50
Mindanao takes the center stage of BS Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan.
The massacre of the Lumad leaders Dionel Campos, Juvello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca on September 1 in Lianga, Surigao del Sur brought to the fore the state of human rights in Mindanao and in the whole country under the BS Aquino regime—the unabated political killings, attacks on communities and on self-initiated schools, forced evacuation, among many other military atrocities. The brazenness by which the crime was committed speaks of the climate of impunity that continues to pervade the country.
