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Standing in solidarity with Filipino human rights defenders

Publication: Monday 5 December 2022 at 1pm Manila time Joint statement: Standing in solidarity with Filipino human rights defenders We, the undersigned organisations, express our utmost concern over the ongoing criminalization of ten human rights defenders and members of Karapatan, GABRIELA and the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) in retaliation for their legitimate human […]

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Karapatan welcomes the concluding observations of the UNHRC on the Philippines

On the UN Human Rights Committee’s concluding observations on the Philippines Karapatan Press Statement – https://www.karapatan.org/On+the+UN+Human+Rights+Committee%E2%80%99s+concluding+observations+on+the+Philippines 7 November 2022 Karapatan welcomes the concluding observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Philippines, including its significant views on red-tagging, the Anti-Terrorism Act, extrajudicial killings in the government’s war on drugs, among other pressing issues on

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A call for UN expert to look into disinformation, red-tagging vs journos, activists

Rights group calls on UN expert to look into disinformation, red-taggingvs journos, activists KARAPATAN Press Release –https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/xnbsFwP3lm8 26 October 2022 Rights group Karapatan denounced the most recent disinformationcampaigns and wholesale red-tagging against journalists and human rightsdefenders in the Philippines, and said that such acts violate and impacton the exercise of press freedom and freedom of

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PH human rights groups submit alternative human rights report to UNtreaty body

KARAPATAN Human Rights Update on behalf of publicinfo, karapatanhr, Press Release – https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/Q_1u7reG_NI 14 September 2022 A decade since the United Nations Human Rights Committee conducted areview on the Philippine government’s compliance to the InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the State party willundergo a fifth review before the UN treaty body this coming October2022,

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