Human Rights Online Philippines

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 speaks for itself: under the Ferdinand Marcos Jr presidency, the country has seen the piling up of cases of extrajudicial killings of labor activists, now at 72 and no one was served justice, six (6) cases of abductions involving 10 labor organizers, 117 cases of violations of the right to assembly, 115 cases of anti-union activities, 53 trumped-up charges against labor activists, and 44 arrests of labor activists based on trumped-up charges.

The Marcos Jr government has not taken any action to hold accountable the alleged perpetrator/s of the extrajudicial killings, abductions and other labor and human rights violations. It has also not done anything to free the 28 political detainees who are labor activists in the country who were hounded and imprisoned by the Rodrigo Duterte administration.

Labor and human rights violations continued after the ILO High Level Tripartite Mission in January 2023. In recent months, for example, labor leaders were slapped with terrorist financing charges. In Cebu, a leader of national labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May First Movement), Mr. Jaime Paglinawan, together with 26 NGO workers in the province, and Unyon ng mga Panadero sa Gardenia Bakeries Philippines, Inc.-OLALIA-KMU vice-president Mr. Rhoel Alconera were charged with such cases.

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ILO confab Told: Philippines not Making Progress on Labor Rights