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Karapatan Alliance Philippines (commonly shortened to Karapatan, which translates to rights in Filipino) is a left-wing [1] [2] [3] non-governmental organization and human rights alliance [4] that conducts research and advocacy of human rights campaigns as well as monitoring and documentation of human rights violations in the Philippines, particularly in the context of the Philippine ...
The implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program relies heavily on the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).As the lead implementing agency, the DAR has the responsibility in carrying out the principal aspects of the program, which are Land Tenure Improvement (LTI), Program Beneficiary Development (PBD), and the Agrarian Justice Delivery (AJD).
Rights; Theoretical distinctions; Claim rights and liberty rights; Individual and group rights; Natural rights and legal rights; Negative and positive rights
On August 24, 2020, Human Rights Watch revealed that employees of Karapatan, a human rights organization in Philippines had received death threats. The threats came a week after unidentified gunmen shot dead Zara Alvarez, a paralegal worker for the group, in Bacolod City in the central Philippines on August 17.
Habeas corpus (/ ˈ h eɪ b i ə s ˈ k ɔːr p ə s /; Latin for "you [shall] have the body") is a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment.
Ferdinand Marcos was nearing the end of his last constitutionally allowed term when he declared martial law in 1972. [10] First elected president in 1965, he was already the first president to be elected to a second term. [10]
The alipin refers to the lowest social class among the various cultures of the Philippines before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the Visayan languages, the equivalent social classes were known as the oripun, uripon, or ulipon.
September 25 - The Justice for Aquino, Justice for All or JAJA Coalition is created by Sen. Jose W. Diokno through his group Kilusan sa Kapangyarihan at Karapatan ng Bayan (Movement for People's Sovereignty and Democracy) or KAAKBAY, which introduced pressure politics in the Philippines. [2]