By a Transport Union Activist On 23 August 2024, James Jazmines attended the 66th birthday dinner of his friend Felix Salaveria Jr. at a restaurant in Tabaco in Alabay Province, in the Philippines along with other members of Cycling Advocates (CYCAD) a cycling club which promotes bicycle riding and supports environmental campaigning in the town. […]
Reference: Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, +63917-3162831 Karapatan Public Information Desk, +63918-9790580 KARAPATAN scores new cases vs activists using twin terror laws KARAPATAN deplores the latest examples of the Marcos Jr. regime’s weaponization of the twin terror laws – Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 and Republic Act No. 10168
Press ReleaseNovember 11, 2023 Bangkok, Thailand— Over 100 human rights advocates from over 30 organizations across the globe held a 3 day conference and assembly to decry the implementation of US counterinsurgency tactics in the Philippines and to advance international defense of human rights under the new Marcos regime. Throughout the conference, human rights experts
UPR Watch Press ReleaseSeptember 26, 2023 Lacks “safer environment for civil society”: Philippines Unworthy of UN Security Council Membership, Say Human Rights Groups Geneva, Switzerland—Grave human rights violations in the Philippines, already acknowledged by various UN offices and agencies, alongside insincerity in cooperating with the UN and other international bodies, should stop the Philippine bid
Dear friends, We are sharing with you a joint statement of solidarity by eight international human rights NGOs FORUM-Asia, Amnesty International, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Front Line Defenders, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders), International Network for Economic, Social and
KARAPATAN PRESS RELEASE – https://groups.google.com/g/karapatas 25 April 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the killing of National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Negros peace consultant Rogelio Posadas, 56, who was allegedly slain in an encounter with the military on April 20, 2023 in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental. Posadas was reported missing on the evening of April 19 when
Karapatan Press release – https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/LBHvgeO2b_I?pli=1 20 April 2023 Human rights alliance Karapatan condemned the brutal killing of Benito Tiamzon, peacetalks panel member of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP peace consultant Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and eight companions. The Tiamzons’ death along with eight others on August 21, 2022 was confirmed in a special issue of
Karapatan Press Release –https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/q0lKb4OS00s?pli=1 24 January 2023 The counterinsurgency program that is being implemented by the MarcosJr. administration, which it continues from previous regimes includingthe Duterte government, through the National Task Force to End LocalCommunist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has resulted in gross violations onthe working people’s right to life and to their freedom of associationand
