On November 8, 2013, the Philippines experienced what was then the strongest super typhoon, Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), which claimed the lives of 6,300 individuals, left nearly 29,000 injured, and caused infrastructure and agricultural damage amounting to PhP 95.5 billion. Beyond this, a total of 1,062 people remain missing to this day. Yolanda’s onslaught affected […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) welcomes various local and international efforts to study and keep track of labor rights in the Philippines, including the Labor Rights Index of Amsterdam-based global, independent, and non-profit organizations Wage Indicator and Centre for Labour Research. The decrease in the Philippines’ score in the Labor Rights […]
In his much-anticipated testimony in the Senate today, former President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes “full legal, moral responsibility” for the war on drugs that has caused the extrajudicial killing of anywhere from 12,000 to 30,000 suspected drug addicts and pushers, most of whom belong to the poorest section of society, and numerous other human […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police for arresting two labor organizers working in the Southern Tagalog region over planted evidence and trumped-up charges, and is calling for the organizers’ immediate release. Gavino Panganiban, director for campaigns of the Pagkakaisa ng mga Manggagawa sa […]
The devastation left by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine across the Philippines once again raises a critical question: When will the nation be prepared to face strong typhoons without enduring severe losses, destruction, and death? As of this writing, Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) has left 158 cities and municipalities under a state of calamity, […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human (CTUHR) is alarmed by, and condemns, the filing of violation of the Public Assembly Act of 1985 (Republic Act 880) charges against two senatorial candidates of the Makabayan bloc, a senatoriable from the transport sector, and a transport leader and assert that these charges constitute police harassment. The […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) throws its support behind the petition filed by retired Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio and other petitioners asking the SC to rule that the transfer of P89.9-billion in Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) funds to the Bureau of the Treasury is unconstitutional. Despite […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) condemns the arrest of Jose Dahildahil Puansing, leader of a farm worker’s association, in Escalante City, Negros Occidental last October 7 on the basis of fabricated charges and an arrest warrant issued by well-known warrant factory judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court […]
Today, October 7, we mark World Day for Decent Work amidst candidates’ filing of candidacies for the 2025 mid-term elections before the Commission on Elections. We call on all candidates running for the Senate, the House of Representatives, and local government positions to immediately bare their agenda for decent jobs in the country. Decent work […]
The imposition of 12% Value-Added Tax on foreign digital services such as Netflix, HBO, Disney, Temu and Amazon poses dangers to workers and all Filipinos. We do not share the celebration being orchestrated by the government over President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s signing into law of Republic Act 112023 on September 2. We cast doubt on […]
