[Press Release] Toxics Watchdog Group Exposes Online Sale of Liquid Mercury and Mercury-Added Products -EcoWaste Coalition

#HumanRights #Health [Press Release] Toxics Watchdog Group Exposes Online Sale of Liquid Mercury and Mercury-Added Products It’s not only mercury-containing skin whitening cosmetics that are being sold online. The EcoWaste Coalition made the shocking discovery after finding mercury thermometers, which are used to measure body temperature, and sphygmomanometers, which are used to measure blood pressure,…

[Press Release] Matapos mahawaan ang 11 Guro sa Ilagan City, TDC nais ilinaw ang trabaho ng mga guro sa DEPED

#HumanRights #Teachers #COVID19ph [Press Release] Matapos mahawaan ang 11 Guro sa Ilagan City, TDC nais ilinaw ang trabaho ng mga guro sa DEPED “Ano ang tulong na maaasahan ng labing-isang guro sa Ilagan City na nahawaan ng COVID-19?” Ito ang tanong ni Benjo Basas, Tagapangulo ng Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) kasunod ng mga ulat na…

[From the web] More quarantine violations logged than individuals tested for COVID-19 -CPRH

More quarantine violations logged than individuals tested for COVID-19; increased health capacity, testing, and social amelioration needed over victim-blaming in a pandemic setting Three days since the end of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine, comparable data and statistics were released by different government authorities regarding the situation. Law enforcement authorities revealed today that from 17…

[Statement] Stop endangering migrant workers health and lives -KANLUNGAN

Stop endangering migrant workers health and lives By now most of the world living with the pandemic is familiar with the concept of physical distancing as a key intervention to prevent the spread of the highly infectious virus and deadly COVID-19 disease. People can catch COVID-19 if they breathe in droplets from a person with…

[Announcement] Serbisyong pangkalusugan sa panahon ng COVID-19 -PMPI

Sa mga mahal po naming mga kababayan, Ang PMPI (Philippine-Misereor Partnesrship, Inc), isang network ng mga 250 CSO (civil society organization) ay magbibigay po ng serbisyong pangkalusugan sa mga komunidad na sakop ng ating network. Dahil sa katangian ng kinakaharap nating situwasyon, ang serbisyo po ay sa pamamagitan ng cell phone at ibang paraang online…

[From the web] I was COVID-19 Patient No. 4 -GMAnews

I was COVID-19 Patient No. 4 “The only way to battle this is through faith and belief that you will be better.” Ito ang mensahe ni Atty. Carlo Navarro, isang COVID-19 survivor. Siya si Patient number 4, ang kauna-unahang Pilipino na nagkaroon ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas. Ngayong patuloy ang kanyang paggaling, ibinahagi niya ang kanyang…

[Video] Public health experts discuss the rights-based approach to COVID19 emergency response -iDEFEND

. # DISCUSSANTS: Dr. Nemuel Fajutagana MD, MHPED Dr. Nymia Pimentel Simbulan Doctor of Public Heatlh Dr. Yvonne Eligado Entico MD, SE Practioner Moderator: Rose Trajano COVID-19 Human Rights Violation Reporting https://idefend.ph/covid19-hrv-reporting # Websites iDEFEND https://idefend.ph/ PAHRA https://philippinehumanrights.org/ # Social Media iDEFEND https://www.facebook.com/iDEFENDoffic… PAHRA https://www.facebook.com/philippinehu… iDEFEND https://twitter.com/iDEFENDhr Submit your contribution online through HRonlinePH@gmail.com Include your…

[In the news] Duterte tells PhilHealth execs: Resign -PhilStar.com

Resignation or termination. These were the two options President Duterte gave officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), which has been rocked by a multibillion-peso fraudulent scam involving dead kidney patients. Duterte was to meet last night with the PhilHealth board, including ex-officio members, at Malacañang to hear the full report of the agency…

[In the news] WHO recognizes ‘burn-out’ as medical condition -GMAnews

The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized “burn-out” in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers. The decision, reached during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, which wraps up on Tuesday, could help put to rest decades of debate among experts…

[In the news] Bishop backs anti-coal campaign in central Philippines -UCAN news

Bishop backs anti-coal campaign in central Philippines A Catholic bishop in the central Philippines has expressed support for a campaign against the building of a coal-fired power plant in Negros Occidental province. Bishop Gerry Alminaza of San Carlos said local church leaders are giving their full backing for the move, initiated by a youth group.…

[Press Release] Teachers Remind DepEd: Annual Medical Check-up for Teacher Should be Free -TDC

Teachers Remind DepEd: Annual Medical Check-up for Teacher Should be Free In time for teachers’ accomplishment of the required annual medical clearance the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) again asserted that the expenses for such should be provided by the government. “We appeal to the good secretary to immediately issue an order to halt the on-going…

[Press Release] Universal healthcare pushed on World Health Day -NTSP

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…

[From the web] Waste and Toxic Watch Group Deplores Piles of Garbage in MM Streets -EcoWaste Coalition

Waste and Toxic Watch Group Deplores Piles of Garbage in MM Streets Quezon City. January is observed as the “Zero Waste Month” and the streets of Metro Manila are strewn with garbage following the New Year revelry. The EcoWaste Coalition, a waste and toxic watch group, drew attention to this ironical situation as piles of…

[Press Release] Teachers seek for Government medical assistance -TDC

Teachers seek for Government medical assistance The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) today revealed that one of the principal factors why teachers borrow money is because the government does not have medical assistance to them despite the mandate of a law. “Under the law, the government is responsible to maintain teachers’ health thru a compulsory, annual…

[From the web] Effective and humane ways to manage the drug problem in the Philippines, a human rights and public health perspective -by Jerbert Briola

Effective and humane ways to manage the drug problem in the Philippines, a human rights and public health perspective by Jerbert Briola Torture Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2017) The Torture Journal is an international scientific journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of original research and systematic reviews by professionals concerned with…

[Statement] Health, Not Death: A Statement Opposing the Reinstatement of Death Penalty in the Philippines -NoBox Philippines

Health, Not Death: A Statement Opposing the Reinstatement of Death Penalty in the Philippines November 24, 2016 The 17th Congress is currently deliberating proposed bills to reinstate the death penalty in the Philippines. Most of these bills take off from the government’s ongoing “war on drugs,” which sees people involved with drugs as criminals who…

[Off the shelf] 25 Tanong at Sagot hinggil sa Kalusugan at Karapatang Pantao -WHO

25 Tanong at Sagot hinggil sa Kalusugan at Karapatang Pantao Gro Harlem Brundtland Geneva, Hulyo 2002 Ang pagtatamasa ng pinakamataas na matatamong pamantayan sa kalusugan bilang pangunahing karapatan ng bawa’t tao ay nakapaloob sa Saligang Batas ng Pandaigdigang Organisasyon sa Kalusugan (World Health Organization o WHO) mahigit 50 taon na ang nakakaraan. Sa ating pang-araw-araw…

[Press Release] Medical doctors presses for right to rehabilitation of victims of torture -MAG

Medical doctors presses for right to rehabilitation of victims of torture Around eighty (80) medical doctors across the country gathered today in the Scientific Conference on the Management and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims on November 11-12, 2015 at the Ciudad Christia Resort, in San Mateo, Rizal. The conference also entitled, Mainstreaming Human Rights in Health…

[From the web] UN Women’s Committee makes inquiry into sexual and reproductive health rights in the Philippines -OHCHR

UN Women’s Committee makes inquiry into sexual and reproductive health rights in the Philippines The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has issued a summary of an inquiry initiated on the basis of information received in 2008 from three women’s rights NGOs in the Philippines. Filipino mother holds her daughter on a…

[From the web] How Not to Stop the Spread of HIV in the Philippines By Carlos Conde

Dispatches: How Not to Stop the Spread of HIV in the Philippines By Carlos Conde June 2, 2015 Philippine Senator Vicente Sotto III may have his way in scuttling a study on needle exchange, which is designed to reverse the rise of HIV infection among people who inject drugs. Giving clean needles to intravenous drug…

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