Bloody Sunday Raids’ Victims Deserve Justice

November 9, 2024

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with labor and other organizations from the Southern Tagalog region which held a picket-protest in front of the Department of Justice office today to call for justice for the victims of the Bloody Sunday raids’ victims. “Bloody Sunday” refers to the simultaneous police […]

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Super Typhoon Yolanda’s 11th Year: Beyond Remembrance, a Call for Accountability

November 8, 2024

On November 8, 2013, the Philippines experienced what was then the strongest super typhoon, Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), which claimed the lives of 6,300 individuals, left nearly 29,000 injured, and caused infrastructure and agricultural damage amounting to PhP 95.5 billion. Beyond this, a total of 1,062 people remain missing to this day. Yolanda’s onslaught affected […]

Philippines’ Labor Rights Index Score Exposes, Hides reality – Labor NGO

November 1, 2024

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 […]

Duterte Drug War Admission, Nothing New: Accountability Needed Now

October 28, 2024

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 […]

Arrested Southern Tagalog Labor Organizers should be Freed Now

October 28, 2024

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 […]