Dear friends and colleagues, Human rights defenders in the Philippines, including human rights workers of Karapatan, are being increasingly being targeted by the Duterte administration in its worsening crackdown on dissent. The attacks on human rights defenders have ranged from threats through public vilification and red-tagging, and these often prelude police raids on their homes […]
HuffPost UK NEWS 12 April 2021 A reluctance to say no to overtime, crowded housing, and overrepresentation on the front line have left thousands at risk. By Aasma Day Filipino healthcare workers in the UK are disproportionately dying of Covid-19 as they are afraid to say no to extra shifts, campaigners have revealed. At least
Karapatan 11 April 2021 Dear friends, We are forwarding you this solidarity statement from Misun Woo, Regional Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) denouncing the bogus attempted murder charge against Karapatan National Chairperson Elisa “Tita” Lubi, who was a governance member of the APWLD, having engaged in the network
KARAPATAN April 8, 2021 We have come together today to express our alarm, frustration and indignation at the ongoing human rights crisis in the Philippines. As the extrajudicial killing, illegal arrests and harassment of human and environmental rights defenders, development workers, trade unionists, lawyers, judges, journalists and opposition politicians continue unabated, we are living in
Karapatan 7 April 2021 Reference: Karapatan Public Information Desk, +639189790580 Help us find Genelyn “Jen” Dichoso, Karapatan human rights worker in Quezon province. On April 5, 2021, Dichoso was supposed to go to a doctor with her daughter for a medical check-up regarding a suspected heart condition; she was not feeling well and was having
Karapatan 7 April 2021 Dear friends, We are forwarding this collective letter from the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) to President Rodrigo Duterte expressing profound concern regarding the recent extrajudicial killings of nine human rights defenders and arrests of at least four others at dawn on the Bloody Sunday raids last
UN Web TV 6 April 2021 Still image captured from video of Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra disclosing initial findings of a departmental review into the deaths of drug suspects during anti-drug operations in the Philippines to the UN Human Rights Council on February 24, 2021. © UN Web TV (Geneva) – The Philippine Department
International IPMSDL, Quezon City, Philippines 6 April 2021 Arrest warrants recalled vs Northern Luzon activists linked by cops to lumad killing Kimberlie Quitasol Philippine Daily Inquirer | March 08, 2021 A court in Tagum City, Davao del Norte province recalled the warrants of arrest it issued in 2020 for five activists in Northern Luzon who
