HRVs

CTUHR Statement on the ILO-CEACR February 24 Report

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February 24 a cause of serious concern.

 

Four were killed this year in an intensifying attack on workers and unionists in the Philippines

At the dusk of Arroyo’s nine-year presidency, human rights violations against workers and trade unions heighten.  Four unionists, workers and advocates were murdered, one tortured to death this year, five were abducted and remain missing and thousands were harassed and threatened since she assumed presidency in 2001.

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