President Rodrigo Duterte got his wish last November 3 when Sr. Patricia Ann Fox, NDS left the Philippines for Australia after the Bureau of Immigration recalled her missionary visa and refused to renew her visitors visa. She was feted in a series of activities that day all the way to the airport by Church groups,…
Karapatan today chided Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque for their “miserable failure to hide the atrocities of the Duterte regime before the international community by invoking national sovereignty when it is besieged with solid and incontrovertible facts and truth on the human rights situation in the Philippines.” read more
International human rights groups join Karapatan in calling for the release of 62-year old Teresita Naul, a human rights defender who will face trial this Friday, July 12, on charges that she is a top leader of communist rebels.
The Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR) post is again vacant as Councilor Halila Sudagar is out in the 19th Council.
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MANILA – A former government peace negotiator fears the government will declare a nationwide and indefinite martial law after Congress, voting 240-27, granted a 1-year extension of martial rule in Mindanao. Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said anyone can be a suspect now that President Rodrigo Duterte has included in martial law’s targets not only communist rebels…