Releases

Killing of Kian Delos Santos, 17, Exposes and Awakens the Many on the Viciousness of PDuterte’s War on Drugs

August 29, 2017

“It is painful but quite normal for children to bury their parents, but it is many times painful for parents to bury their kids, especially if they are just beginning their life. But the killing of Kian Delos Santos, and the many who mourned and raged somehow emboldened the neighbors, the families, the victims, even […]

Too Harsh and Anti-poor

August 26, 2017

Letter to the Editor (published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:02 AM August 26, 2017) Last Aug. 3, Quezon City’s public order and safety department implemented a “one-strike policy” against unregistered or “colorum” tricycles (“QC gov’t crushes sidecars seized from colorum,” Metro, 8/4/17). Hundreds of tricycles were publicly destroyed to serve as warning to other […]

Statement on the Commission on Appointment rejection of Prof Judy Taguiwalo as DSWD Secretary

August 16, 2017

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is grievously dismayed over the Commission on Appointment’s rejection of Prof. Judy Taguiwalo as DSWD chief this afternoon. This decision is also tantamount to rejecting the principle and belief that the true measure of genuine public service is having your heart beat, your mind think, hands […]

Labor Rights Group Raises Alarm Over Militarization of Bureaucracy

May 13, 2017

The labor rights institution, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raised serious alarm over President Rodrigo Duterte’s appointment of military generals in his cabinet, stating that it is an ominous sign for the already deteriorating human rights situation in the country and shows an increased tendency for militarist solution to the country’s ills. […]

Workers are Restive over Repression of their Rights, Continuing Massive Contractualization

April 30, 2017

“Noong bata pa ako, palipat lipat ng trabaho ang tatay ko dito sa Valenzuela at sa iba pang lugar, Kontraktwal siyang manggagawa. Madalas, wala siyang trabaho. Nakita ko kung gaano kahirap ang buhay niya at ang buhay namin. Maliit lang ang kinikita niya. Ngayon, mahigit 20 na ang edad ko, kontraktwal din akong manggagawa at […]

Fourteen Workers Killed, Harassments Increased, Workplace Deaths Multiplied in Duterte’s 10-Month in Office

April 28, 2017

Fourteen workers were killed in politically motivated killings and workers are restive over absence of significant change in their condition that has not come under the Duterte administation, says a labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR). This number is more than twice the six (6) victims during Benigno Aquino’s first […]

Kadamay’s #OccupyPabahay, A Manifestation of the Failure of 25-Year Old UDHA

March 24, 2017

On the 25th anniversary of the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (UDHA), the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) stands in solidarity and calls for  more support to Kadamay’s occupation of idle housing projects which started on March 8. “UDHA miserably failed in providing shelter to the underprivileged and homeless which the […]

Support the Mines closures, end the plunder, assist the displaced workers – CTUHR

February 27, 2017

The labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) commends the decisiveness of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez to suspend and cancel contracts of large scale and extractive mining firms in the country. In a country where multinational corporations favourably aided by foreign investment laws lord over […]

1,328 HTI workers still unaccounted for – NFFM

February 22, 2017

Members of the National Fact-Finding Mission (NFFM) on the House Technology Industries tragedy revealed today that hundreds of HTI workers still remain unaccounted, contrary to the claim of HTI management, the Philippine Export Processing Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Cavite local government unit. “The public deserves to know the truth. The data we have gathered […]

Findings of the National Fact-Finding Mission on the House Technology Industries Factory Fire

February 14, 2017

I. Introduction Background On February 1, 2017, at around 6 PM, a fire broke inside the premises of the three-storey building owned by HTI. Accounts from the workers indicated that between 1,000-2,000 workers were inside the building at that time. Some of the workers were about to leave HTI and some were coming in for their […]