As it launches the initial findings and recommendations of its 2025 report today, a network devoted to the rights of Filipino workers detailed the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government’s promises of taking action and actual inaction and called on the government to address the major rights issues facing workers. At a press conference at the Smallville […]
Marking the eighth year in detention of one of the first labor activists imprisoned by the Rodrigo Duterte administration, labor groups held a picket today in front of the Justice Department office in Padre Faura, Manila, to call for the junking of trumped-up charges against 18 labor activists and for their immediate freedom. Together with […]
To mark the eighth year in prison of the longest-detained political prisoner from the labor movement and call for the immediate freedom of political detainees from the sector, labor groups held an art exhibit and solidarity concert in the Commission of Human Rights compound in Quezon City today. The exhibit and concert titled “Paglaban and […]
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 […]
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) 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 […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) celebrates the release from prison of a labor leader from the Southern Tagalog region who was arrested in October 2024 based on trumped-up charges. It is calling on the Ferdinand Marcos Jr government to immediately release the other 18 political detainees from the labor movement in […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) acknowledges President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s signing, last September 19, of an executive order affirming workers’ right to unionization. We consider this a positive development, but workers and their advocates will remain vigilant towards the order’s implementation. Executive Order No. 97 orders all government agencies to uphold […]
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) vehemently condemns the arrest on trumped-up charges of Felixberto Consad, member of progressive transport group Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (PISTON), on August 14 in Sogod, Southern Leyte. Consad’s arrest highlights the continuity of the human rights situation in the country […]
