HR group alarmed over rise of cases of activists gone missing in Mindanao
Karapatan deplores pattern of killings, arrests of civilians recently 'abducted' by military or police in Mindanao.
Photo Courtesy of KARAPATAN - SMR Facebook page
Karapatan slams AFP for parading human rights worker as NPA tax collector
The human rights group Karapatan Southern Mindanao slams the Army's 71st Infantry Battalion for parading an abducted human rights worker as a tax collector for the New People's Army.
(Photo from Manggagawa Partylist's Facebook page)
‘An insult to PH workers,’ Manggagawa Party-list reacts to Comelec en banc disqualification resolution
MANGGAGAWA Party-list slammed on Wednesday the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc to disqualify them to join the 2019 midterm polls, saying such decision insults the Filipino workers.
Activists protest outside the office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Friday, May 19, 2017. (Photo by Karapatan)
Karapatan: Only ‘tyrants’ will call HR group, defenders as enemy of the state
A human rights group hit back at President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that human rights groups are enemies of the state, saying such view is held only by a tyrant leader.
Teachers from Alliance of Concerned Teachers for Peace in Metro Manila held an alternative classroom at the Manilakbayan Kampuhan at Liwasan Bonifacio. They discuss the issues affecting lumad schools in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
ACT fears PNP employs ‘tokhang’ on teachers
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has likened the Philippine National Police (PNP) profiling of its members and feared the police may just knock and force its members to admit a crime anytime.