Change made a turn for the worse in the two years of the Duterte presidency. Under Duterte’s rule remains a large army of unemployed and contractual workers paid with a pittance of wages, a people burdened with additional taxes and higher prices of goods and services, millions of peasants displaced by foreign and domestic big…
Karapatan condemned the recent killing of peasant leaders Julius Broce Barellano and Arnel Penaso, as well as the recent illegal arrest and detention of peasant organizer Pedro Lumantas, saying these rights violations further demonstrate “the Duterte regime’s contempt for the majority of poor peasants in the country.” On June 27, 2018, Barellano, 36, Chairperson of…
“The nearly 2-month detention of a Methodist missionary from Zimbabwe and the harassment of two other missionaries from the US and Malawi demonstrate the paranoia overdrive of a brutal and repressive regime that has much to hide. At the same time, it also shows the Duterte administration’s dire lack of understanding and respect for the…
Puspusang Labanan ang Tortyur at Iba pang Kalupitan ng Estado Pahayag ng Bilanggong Pulitikal sa Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City Hunyo 26, 2018, Pandaigdigang Araw Laban sa Tortyur May batas ang Gobyerno ng Republika ng Pilipinas laban sa tortyur mula pa noong 2009. Pormal na kinikilala doon ang absolutong karapatan at kalayaan sa tortyur, at itinuturing ang tortyur bilang krimen sa lahat ng kalagayan at panahon. Lumagda ang gobyerno sa kasunduan laban sa tortyur at iba pang porma ng…
As the human rights organization commemorated the International Day Against Torture, Karapatan deplored the continuing policy and practice of torture used by State forces under Duterte. “Duterte’s disregard for the most basic rights and freedoms and his promotion of the culture of impunity in the country have made it possible for the perpetuation of torture…
In the light of the recent joint statement of 38 states led by Iceland at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Karapatan reissued its call for the removal of the Philippines at the UN Human Rights Council and for the human rights body to initiate an international fact-finding mission and commission on inquiry on the…
“While the police continue their killing spree through the drug war and initiate mass arrests of tambays in urban communities, soldiers stepped up their attacks against peasant and indigenous people populations in Mindanao where martial law is imposed. The Duterte regime is unleashing its all-out assault on the Filipino people’s democratic rights,” said Karapatan Secretary…
Karapatan decried the most recent suspension of the formal peacetalks by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines as “yet another indication of the Duterte regime’s disinterest in pursuing and committing to reforms that should benefit the Filipino people and in meeting its obligations to release political prisoners and other human rights commitments.” read…