The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is dismayed by the admission of a Labor Department official that the country’s definition of an employed person is someone who worked for one hour in a week. We in the labor NGO believe that this definition is harmful to the labor and human rights of […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns Vice President Sara Duterte for stonewalling legislative hearings on the budget allocated to her offices, as her behavior and the government’s failure to keep it in check are ultimately detrimental to labor and human rights. On social media, videos of the vice-president have become viral: […]
Today, International Day of the Disappeared, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) calls for the immediate surfacing and release of James Jazmines, brother of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Alan Jazmines, who was last since in Tabaco, Albay and has been missing since August 23. James Jazmines served […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the announcement yesterday, August 26, National Heroes’ Day, of the candidacy for the Senate of 10 leaders of the Makabayang Koalisyon ng mga Mamamayan (Makabayan) bloc, as they will surely boost discussions about labor and human rights during their campaign. Whatever the outcome of the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins worker and health worker groups in the country in calling for a cancellation of the transfer of supposed excess funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to the national treasury. Given the pressing health needs of many indigent patients, many of whom are workers, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) strongly condemns the arrest, based on trumped-up charges, of Jayvee “Jay” S. Apiag, a former leading human rights worker in Southern Mindanao and currently a law student. We are calling for the junking of the trumped-up charges filed against him and for his immediate release. Like […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) deeply mourns the death of long-time labor activist and political prisoner Ernesto Jude Rimando Jr on July 23. CTUHR expresses its heartfelt condolences to Rimando’s family, friends and comrades and to the workers and the poor in the Visayas whom he worked with for almost 20 […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is utterly dismayed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s statements on the massive July 24 floods that were caused by the southwestern monsoon, which was strengthened by supertyphoon Carina (international name Gaemi). We call on him to study and act on the deeper reasons for the disaster. […]
Today, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr will deliver his third State of the Nation Address (SONA). Today, we in the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) say: it is already Marcos Jr’s third SONA, but Filipino workers still have not experienced the “bagong Pilipinas” (new Philippines) that he promised. Unemployment remains high, wages remain […]
This is an act of injustice that ignores the human rights situation in the country and must be overturned. The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the conviction of former Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Satur Ocampo, ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro and 11 others for child abuse. Seasoned activists Ocampo and […]
