Same as his predecessors, President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm track record leaves behind anti-worker policies, poor employment, and stagnant real wages, despite increasing labor productivity and buzz over high economic growth rates, according to a labor…
Nonprofit organization Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc. (EILER) calls the attention of Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono as President Rodrigo Duterte received him in Davao City for a three-day official visit. Minister…
Whereas, South-South Cooperation, having arisen from the Global South’s search for alternatives to the paternalistic and unequal traditional North-South development aid and cooperation framework, poses opportunities and has raised high hopes for people from the South; Whereas,…
The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) is deeply concerned with the recent tirades of Brigadier General Antonio Parlade Jr., deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against…
Human rights group Karapatan strongly denounces the killing of Fr. Mark Ventura at a gymnasium in Brgy. Pena Weste, Gattaran, Cagayan. The 37-year-old priest had just finished celebrating mass when armed assailants arrived and shot…
The recent NCCC mall fire that took the lives of 38 workers should be the final tragedy in the workplace and lawmakers must take a closer look at the Special Economic Zone Act of 1994…
On December 13, 2017, the supermajority in the 17th Congress and the Senate approved President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial law in Mindanao for another year. The decision is far from the promised promotion of…
Global civil society network People Over Profit (POP) condemns the arbitrary last minute decision of the Argentinian government to bar a number of civil society and peoples’ organizations from next week’s 11th World Trade Organization ministerial…
Three members of the factfinding mission (FFM) team were shot by unnamed men at around Tuesday afternoon at Brgy. San Ramon, Bayawan, Negros Oriental. Elisa Badayos of Karapatan Central Visayas, wife of former labor leader and…
MANILA—Thousands of protesters gather on September 21 anti-tyranny protest in Luneta to commemorate the 1972 Martial Law declaration. An estimated 30,000-strong protesters led by the Movement Against Tyranny marked the 45th year of martial law declaration…
