KARAPATAN

Statement at the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security hearing on red-tagging

Statement at the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security by Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General November 24, 2020 Magandang araw po, Mr. Chair. Statement at the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security by Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary

March 13, 2024

Human Rights·Institutions

Duterte term-ender and 2022 Marcos Jr year-end report

Duterte term-ender report – Rodrigo Duterte and His Crass Legacy of Mass Murder and State TerrorThe Rodrigo Duterte regime ended in June 2022, in what seemed to be the longest six years in the recent history of the people’s movement’s advancement of

March 13, 2024

Human Rights·Institutions

Karapatan Monitor for January to March 2023 – Karapatan May 13, 2023

Cycle of Fascist Violence Under Marcos Jr. THE MARCOS REGIME confirmed in the first quarter of 2023 that it is deadset on perpetuating the same anti-people political and economic policies and human rights violations committed by its predecessors. From extrajudicial killings to

March 13, 2024

Human Rights·Institutions

Karapatan Monitor for April to June 2023

FERDINAND MARCOS JR.: Successor of His Father’s Reign of Terror and Copy-Cat of Duterte’s Malicious BrutalityMarcos Jr.’s First Year of TerrorAFTER A YEAR IN POWER and fashioning himself like his father, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has proven to be a virtual clone

March 13, 2024

Human Rights·Institutions

On the Philippine government’s statements at the UNHRC and the Marcos-Duterte admin’s human rights coordinating council

KARAPATAN takes exception to statements by Philippine government representatives at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland regarding the supposed reforms that it has undertaken to uphold human rights and its plans to establish a human rights

March 13, 2024

Human Rights·Institutions

2023 Karapatan Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

After a year and a half in power, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has more and more epitomized the fascist and terrorist nature of his rule. On the one hand, he presents a carefully cultivated “presidential” image, never delving into his regime’s sordid human

March 13, 2024

Alternative media·Human Rights

Appeal for support for Mamanwa communities forcibly evacuated due to military operations

Dear friends and fellow rights advocates, Greetings! Military elements from the 30th and 38th IBPA and the 3rd Special Forces of the 402nd Brigade have encamped in civilian communities in the mountain areas of Cabadbaran and Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte and Alegria

March 22, 2012

Human Rights·Organizations

From defenders to victims: The plight HRDs in the Philippines amidst continuing impunity

(Paper presented by Atty. Edre U. Olalia, Secretary General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), and Cristina E. Palabay, Spokesperson of Karapatan, at the Conference on Defending Human Rights Defenders in London, 24 February 2012, organized by the Haldane Society

February 24, 2012