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 […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses its solidarity with the Ateneo Employee and Workers Union (AEWU) in opposing the Ateneo de Manila University administration’s retaliatory attacks and in seeking to exercise the right to strike. We condemn the Labor Secretary for assuming jurisdiction over the labor dispute in the university last […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) hails the resolution filed by the Makabayan Bloc in Congress pushing to investigate the cases of harassment faced by labor activists this year. We call on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to support the investigation, as it is a needed addition to his push for legislation favoring […]
Today, International Human Rights Day, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) reiterates our urgent call to the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government: free all political prisoners from the labor movement and all political prisoners in the country. Releasing the 18 labor activists is a major step forward for workers’ rights and for undoing […]
A day before International Human Rights Day, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raises the alarm over the continuing harassment of labor activists in the country, despite President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s executive order. We demand that the government investigate recent cases of harassment, hold those responsible accountable, and protect the right to […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) statement that P500 would suffice for a Filipino family’s noche buena meal. The statement is a justification for low wages and is simply out of touch with reality and unacceptable amidst the soaring prices of food. In late […]
On the seventh anniversary of the the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) reiterates its analysis that the government’s anti-communist agency is a bane to workers’ labor and human rights and to democracy in the country. We dare President Ferdinand Marcos Jr […]
The resignation of former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio “Babes” Singson from the Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI) is not a good sign for the Filipino workers’ and people’s struggle for accountability for corruption in the government’s flood control projects. Singson’s resignation from the ICI, just three months after the body […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for impounding six vehicles that were transporting workers who were on their way to Luneta in time for this year’s Bonifacio Day protest. The seizure of five jeepneys and one L300 van is a form of harassment against the workers […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) unites with the Filipino workers and people who are protesting in Luneta, Edsa and other parts of the country today against government corruption. We are one with the call for accontability and for changes in government that will ward off corruption. Today marks the 162nd birth […]
