A woman lost her 4-month-old baby in the evacuation site of Lumads, indigenous peoples who were forced to flee their homes in Surigao del Sur because of militarization that resulted to a massacre last September 1, 2015.
Meanwhile, presidential aspirant Mar Roxas doesn’t seem to get the issue.
Janess Ann Ellao of Bulatlat.com and Raymund Villanueva of Kodao Productions report for AlterMidya.
Red-tagging remains among the most prevalent threats to press freedom that also include violence against journalists and the media in the Philippines, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reported. In his keynote speech at the opening of the historic 1st Philippine...
Research group IBON said that a wage hike towards a family living wage is a more than fair 50-50 split of profits between employers and Filipino workers. The group said that a meaningful wage hike is urgent for nominal wages to keep up with the rising cost of living....
No amount of job fairs can hide that job creation for Filipino workers has been lagging, breaking government’s façade of an improving labor market, said research group IBON. The group said that employment generation so far this year is far below government’s...
Government workers groups are demanding from the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration an increase in their salaries, saying their current pay have been left way behind by current living wage estimates. The country’s major public sector union federations met at the...
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