The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes various local and international efforts to study and keep track of labor rights in the Philippines, including the Labor Rights Index of Amsterdam-based global, independent, and non-profit organizations Wage Indicator and Centre for Labour Research. The decrease in the Philippines’ score in the Labor Rights […]
Committed to the cause of advancing genuine, democratice, nationalist, and militant trade unionism.
In his much-anticipated testimony in the Senate today, former President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes “full legal, moral responsibility” for the war on drugs that has caused the extrajudicial killing of anywhere from 12,000 to 30,000 suspected drug addicts and pushers, most of whom belong to the poorest section of society, and numerous other human […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police for arresting two labor organizers working in the Southern Tagalog region over planted evidence and trumped-up charges, and is calling for the organizers’ immediate release. Gavino Panganiban, director for campaigns of the Pagkakaisa ng mga Manggagawa sa […]
The devastation left by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine across the Philippines once again raises a critical question: When will the nation be prepared to face strong typhoons without enduring severe losses, destruction, and death? As of this writing, Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) has left 158 cities and municipalities under a state of calamity, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human (CTUHR) is alarmed by, and condemns, the filing of violation of the Public Assembly Act of 1985 (Republic Act 880) charges against two senatorial candidates of the Makabayan bloc, a senatoriable from the transport sector, and a transport leader and assert that these charges constitute police harassment. The […]
