The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy in order to claim their labor and human rights, is calling on the government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to intervene into the reported closure of Sofitel on July 1 in order […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the inclusion of the Philippines in the agenda of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 112th International Labour Conference, currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland. We tell the ILO’s ILC: the Philippines is not making any progress in protecting labor rights and human rights. The data […]
Ang Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), isang non-government organization na sumusuporta sa mga manggagawa sa pormal at di-pormal na sektor ng ekonomiya para isabuhay ang kanilang mga karapatang pangmanggagawa at pantao, ay mahigpit na nakikiisa sa ating lahat na narito ngayon at sa ating mga kapanalig. Makabuluhan ang layunin ng ating pagtitipon […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) is raising the alarm on the increase in terrorist financing cases that are being filed against labor leaders, on top of continuing rights violations including the continued disappearance of a labor organizer and imprisonment of labor activists based on trumped-up charges. In the past months, terrorist […]
The case is most absurd, as the labor leader and each of the development workers have no money and had to borrow money in order to post the P200,000 bail for their temporary liberty. A few days after Labor Day, posters red-tagging AMA Sugbo-KMU, youth activist organization Anakbayan and umbrella organization Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes the recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) upholding the Court of Appeals’ (CA) decision that military officials have been remiss in their duties as stated by the law in investigating the abduction and disappearance of labor organizers Elizabeth “Loi” Magbanua and Alipio “Ador” Juat […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, lauds the suspension of the New Bilibid Prison’s strip and cavity search among visitors of political prisoners in the jail facility. While we welcome the […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that empowers workers in the formal and informal sectors of the economy to claim their labor and human rights, welcomes the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling that red-tagging violates many human rights and that activists who have been red-tagged may merit protection. We hail the […]
Today, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. marks his second Labor Day in office by celebrating the 50 years of the country’s Labor Code (PD 442), signed into law by his father. the dictator. in 1974. We at the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) say: “There is nothing to celebrate about the 50 years […]
Press StatementLabor Day 2024 2nd Labor Day under Marcos Jr: nothing but empty words for w0rkersToday, Internaational Labor Day, we celebrate, and protest the devaluation of, the contributions of workers globally not just to the economy but to the world’s development as a whole. We salute and celebrate the contributions of Filipino workers to the […]
