July 3 marked the 4th year of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020. The Rodrigo Duterte and now Ferdinand Marcos Jr governments have consistently weaponized it to attack labor and social activists. The ATA has generally been a minus, rather than a plus, to labor and human rights and must immediately be repealed or junked. […]
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 […]
Today, May 10, is the first month of the abduction and enforced disappearance of veteran Mindanao labor organizer William Lariosa in Quezon, Bukidnon. We demand that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his government surface Lariosa now! Stop the abduction and enforced disappearance of labor activists! Stop the attacks on the labor movement! Eyewitnesses say that […]
“It is nothing but discriminatory and in times of pandemic where many are hungry, the policy is not only illegal but cruel and inhumane”. The Secretary knows very well the existing no work, no pay policy, CTUHR said in a statement. The last several days, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello […]
..”At Nestlé, we are determined to keep violations out of the value chains we control and to foster systems that can help keep them out of those we do not.” – Nestle Global website The Center of Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) appreciates and counts on the human rights commitment made by Nestle Global in […]
Myanmar Jade Mine Collapse Kills at Least 168 Dozens of miners were missing after a huge pile of muddy waste collapsed into an open pit in northern Myanmar, triggering a vast wave, an official said. By Saw Nang and Richard C. Paddock https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/world/asia/myanmar-jade-mine-collapse.html MANDALAY, Myanmar — With barely enough time to yell “run,” hundreds of jade miners had […]
“Are the workers being abandoned?” This is the reaction of labor rights NGO, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) when the Department of Labor and Employment issued Department Order 213, Series of 2020 or the “Prescribing Guidelines in the Prescription of Actions and the Suspension of Reglementary Periods To File Pleadings, Motions and […]
On April 15, 2020, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced that its COVID-19 Adjustment Measure Program (CAMP) is now closed for new applications. OIC Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay said that this is to give way to the transition to the wage subsidy for small business program of the Department of Finance. The Center […]
On the occasion of the 71stAnniversary of the universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) joins the tens of thousands of Filipinos to protest in order to protect and defend human rights under the Duterte regime. “There is no let up in the state attacks against human rights […]
