Karapatan

Karapatan, which translates as rights, is a human rights non-governmental organization in the Philippines. The full name of the group is KARAPATAN: Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights.This organization recently signed in a joint human right statement demanding release of the student activist Rinshad Reera in Kerala , India

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History

In 2007, the organization's General Secretary, Marie Hilao-Enriquez, presented on extra-judicial political killing before the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, chaired by US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Cal).[1][2]

In 2019, after the Philippine government accused Karapatan of being a front for the Communist Party of the Philippines, which the government had labeled as a terrorist group in 2017, Karapatan filed several complaints with United Nations officials.[3]

References
  1. Lariosa, Joseph. "Hearing on Extra-Judicial Killings Up Before US Congress". Asian Journal. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved April 26, 2019..
  2. "Extrajudicial Killings In The Philippines: Strategies To End The Violence". U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. March 14, 2007. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  3. "Karapatan raises 'red-tagging' concerns with UN officials". The Philippine Star. April 5, 2019. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
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