The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the guilty verdict handed down today by the Tacloban Regional Trial Court (RTC) on journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil for terrorism financing charges. The guilty verdict extends the government persecution of Frenchie Mae and Marielle. The pattern is very clear: […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) hails the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling that James Jazmines, an activist who has been missing since August 2024, is a victim of enforced disappearance and that grants his wife the writs of amparo and habeas data. This decision lays the blame for Jazmines’ disappearance on […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its solidarity with the faculty and employees of the Centro Escolar University (CEU) who want to go on strike to fight for better wages and benefits. We condemn Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma’s injunction order against the CEU faculty and employees’ strike, which is a violation […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates with the peasant and human rights movement in the country the acquittal of a peasant organizer who was imprisoned for five years because of trumped-up charges. We hope that this acquittal will encourage courts to junk similar charges that are keeping political prisoners in jail. […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) extends its deepest condolences to the families, friends and co-workers of the six reported dead workers, as of this writing, in the collapse of a mountain of garbage in Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City. At the same time, we are calling on the government to work […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins people’s organizations and the human rights community in the Philippines and abroad in condemning the human rights violations being perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Abra de Ilog town of Occidental Mindoro. We demand an immediate end to, and an investigation […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates a court decision released last December ordering Ninja Van to reinstate 131 of its riders whom the leading logistics provider in Southeast Asia retrenched for allegedly going on AWOL at work. The court decision is a most welcome statement about the labor rights of workers […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the Christmastime extra-judicial killing of an organizer of sugar workers in Negros. The murder is part of the government’s attacks on progressive grassroots organizations in the island and on labor organizing in the country. We demand that the national government probes the murder and […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the issuance of an arrest warrant against, and arrest of, Cordillera labor leader Mike Cabangon. This Christmastime arrest based on trumped-up charges is yet another attack on Filipino workers’ right to freedom of association. Mike Cabangon, coordinator and spokesperson of the regional chapter of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins Church organizations in condemning the P8.1 billion budget allocated for the government’s anti-insurgency task force for 2026. The fund will be spent the way the agency’s budget has been spent in previous years – for human rights violations and corruption. On Wednesday, Caritas Philippines and […]
