Dear friends and colleagues, Karapatan’s website www.karapatan.org has been inaccessible since January 20, 2019. We were careful not to automatically attribute this problem to a possible cyberattack against our web page. However, after much troubleshooting, our website continued to receive an abnormal load of traffic which was more than what the provider can handle. After…
(Photo courtesy of Kodao Productions) “…if traditional politicians will be here to stay, then this will be no different from the past attempts to build an autonomous region.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO bulatlat.com MANILA — With the recent swearing in of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority that will assume interim leadership in the villages and…
Guihulngan City – Human rights group HUSTISYA Guihilngan refutes the AFP’s claim of an encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) on August 14 that killed a civilian in Guihulngan City. In a statement, the group said that there was no encounter, and that the 62nd Infantry Battalion did not kill an NPA fighter but…
President Rodrigo Duterte has a really confused mind, replying with off topic answers, Jose Maria Sison said. “Magulo talaga ang utak ni Duterte. Siya ang tanungin kung bakit bigla niyang binabanggit si Leila de Lima at iyong umano’y sex video,” Sison said of the President’s reply to his earlier announcement the National Democractic Front of…
As slain human rights and health worker Zara Alvarez is laid to rest today, human rights watchdog Karapatan asserted that “any independent investigation on her cold-blooded murder should first look into State forces and their complicity and involvement — precisely because of the pattern of threats and vilification she and other slain human rights workers…
“Activism is not terrorism. We cannot let this to happen. This is not only intolerable, this is inhuman, unjust, unlawful. Thus we urge everyone to register opposition against the bill which to our firm belief will further re-enforce tyranny and totalitarianism.” The post ‘Activism is not terrorism’ appeared first on Kodao Productions.