Amnesty International paints a mixed picture of the Philippines, where rights abuses persist AMNESTY International on Tuesday launched its annual…
CONTEXT CHECK: Layers of markups and taxes that push prices as high as 355%, a gutted generics law, kickbacks to…
A preliminary report by Workers’ Rights Watch paints a grim picture of the state of labor rights in the Philippines.…
CONTEXT CHECK: Filipinos are struggling with housing, yes. But what the data actually shows is that the Philippines has an…
Water cannon incident is just the latest in a string of abuses in Laguna Technopark ecozone. Advocates are urging the…
Rolan Popatco Jr., the first Aeta to become a medical technologist, deserves every word of praise he gets. The Philippine…
In cities like Cagayan de Oro, poor Filipinos contend with the impact of the conflict in the Middle East and…
What deregulation does, structurally and predictably, is erode the conditions necessary for those rights to be fulfilled — not through…
When pricing systems deepen poverty, they implicate the state’s duty to protect, particularly when the state created those systems. OIL…
Transport groups have announced strike threat while Ibon Foundation calls government measures “cosmetic.” Because of the impacts, the increase also…