Youth for Rights launches Green Mask Campaign Calls for Environment Policy Change not Charter Change! A youth rights defenders group called on President Rodrigo Duterte to prioritize changes in environment policies rather than changing the constitution. Youth for Rights (Y4R), a group of young human rights and environmental rights defenders added its voice to the…
Balay urged parties in conflict to ensure protection of civilians in the on-going military- BIFF clashes Balay has called on concerned local government units and the military authorities to uphold humanitarian protection and to take steps to ensure civilian safety and welfare following the reported deaths of a pregnant woman and a 14-year old boy…
TDC suportado ang Brigada Eskwela, ngunit may paalala sa obligasyon ng Gobyerno Nanawagan ang Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) sa lahat ng mga kasapi nito sa buong bansa na suportahan ang Brigada Eskwela na pangungunahan ng Department of Education (DepEd) mula ngayong araw, Mayo 28 hanggang Hunyo 2, 2018. “Naniniwala kami na malaki ang tulong ng…
To have IP rights in the BBL means inclusive peace, say Lumads “To include non-Moro indigenous peoples rights in the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) means inclusive peace, and a more lasting one,” says Titay Bleyen Santos Unsad, a Teduray leader from Upi, Maguindanao. “Peace in Mindanao is a common aspiration of the Moro people…
Climate Justice Group and Sariaya communities oppose the construction of San Miguel Corporation 600 MW coal-fired facility (April 30, 2018, Sariaya, Quezon). On what has been a people power action, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) with the residents and barangay officials of the Barangays San Roque, Castanas and Talata Aplaya, civil society groups…
On Labor Day, all roads lead to Mendiola, Frustrated workers to march together on Labor Day The growing frustration, disappointment and dissatisfaction of workers over President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to fulfill a promise have only bonded workers. Unable to secure an Executive Order over the past year that would have re-established direct hiring as the…
Teachers anticipate better compensation, security for poll workers The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) said they anticipate better compensation package, insurance and protection for teachers who will opt to serve the Barangay and SK Elections on May 14, 2018. The group lauded the passage of the Election Services Reform Act (RA 10756) that they believe “will…
Philippine democracy in danger — IDEFEND #YestoInternationalSolidarity #ResistDictatorship April 20, 2018. QUEZON CITY—Members of human rights movement IDEFEND decried the worsening human rights situation and the continuing threats to Philippine democracy. Philippine Democracy is in Danger declared IDEFEND. This declaration comes in the wake of more recent events like the deportation of Giacomo Fillbeck, of…
On Duterte’s passing the responsibility to Congress to end contractualization: Like throwing a person in a shark-infested sea Labour rights organization, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) slammed Pres Duterte’s turn around on end to contractualization, saying that Malacanang’s move smashes the tiniest hope for decent work that workers in this country were…
NEWS RELEASE April 17, 2018 Teachers welcome DEPED-GSIS MOA on loans, propose long-term solution on over-borrowing While welcoming the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) which the DepEd and GSIS have entered into in Malacanang yesterday, the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) says the government should think of a long-term solution to the financial problems haunting our public…
Universal healthcare pushed on World Health Day On the occasion of World Health Day in April 7, members of the Working Group on Social ASEAN pushed for the immediate realization of universal healthcare as they decried the highly insufficient state provision for healthcare and the capitalists’ excessive profiting from health services and medicines. The group…
THINK FIRST BEFORE YOU DRINK: Labour rights group slams Coca-Cola’s brazen disregard of labour laws, arrogant refusal to regularize its 675 contractual workers “When aggrieved workers have found recourse in law to get regular employment denied them by company squeezing them for decades, and corporations violate the law, it is a legitimate right of…
Iligal na pag-aresto kay Ruby Lacadman, kinundena ng CTUHR Kinukundena ng Center for Trade Union and Human Rights ang iligal na pag-aresto kay Ruby Lacadman, organisador at miyembro ng grupong Kadamay, noong Marso 29 sa kaniyang tahanan sa Barangay Cacutud, Mabalacat City, Pampanga. Sapilitang hinuli ng mga pulis at militar si Lacadman sa bisa ng…
Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND) Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) 28 March 2018 Every year on Holy Wednesday, the families of the disappeared and human rights defenders gather to reflect on the passion of Jesus Christ even as they relate the suffering from injustice of their beloved desaparecidos to Jesus’ agony on…
Activism is not terrorism! The Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes, Inc. (PNFSP) vehemently condemns on the highest possible terms, the present US backed Duterte regime, together with the Department of Justice (DOJ), for its February 23, 2018 pronouncement, tagging 656 personalities as terrorists. Among the named individuals belong to national minority, human rights defenders,…
Priests and religious people say “mea culpa” The Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP), in celebration of the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons, will hold a CONFESSIO PECCATI, which literally means “confession of sins”, and PENITENTIAL WALK dubbed as “Daan ng Krus, Daan ng Paghilom”, on March 21, Wednesday, 3pm,…
INDIGENOUS WOMEN to Gov’t: Stop Violence, Focus on Food and Poverty Iba, Zambales / 3.8.18 – “Dahil sa lupa kami nabubuhay, dahil sa lupa kami pinapatay.” “Land is why we live, land is why we are killed.” This is the statement of the Indigenous women to describe the current situation that most of their communities…
Teachers ask DEPED to stop medical examination with pay The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) thru its national chairperson Benjo Basas asked DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones to issue a department order to halt the on-going medical check-up and laboratory tests in DepEd field offices citing the violation of the part of the DepEd for not providing…
Soldiers crackdown on trade unionists, Labour rights organization CTUHR decries extrajudicial killings, arrest and forcing them to surrender as NPA supporters As the Philippines commemorates the 32 years of EDSA People Power that deposed the Marcos dictatorship, labour rights organization Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) decries what it considers the return of…
Duterte’s extension on EO vs Endo, tactics to keep the unions’ hoping while tempering increased dissatisfaction Labour rights group, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), scored President Duterte’s refusal to sign the draft Executive Order (EO) on ending contractualization submitted to him by the labor sector last February 7 as double-edged tactics to…
