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Attacks Right in the Workers’ Belly (Workers Rights Midyear Report)

Victims of Trade Union Killings and Massacre (January 2001-March 2008

Nakaliligalig na Kapayapaang Industriyal (Ulat sa lagay ng Karapatang Pang-Manggagawa at Pantao)

Treacherous and Disquieting Industrial Peace (Trade Union and Human Rights Report 2007)

Trade Unions Under Seige: Workers' Rights Report 2006

Labor Flexibilization: Dagger in the Hearts of Filipino Workers

The Year of Living Dangerously: Workers' Rights Review 2005

Battered Bodies and Crushed Rights:State of Filipino Workers Trade Union and Human Rights under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's five-year administration

Tighter Belts and Bloodied Year: Workers' Rights Review in 2004

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UNI Statement (on their fact finding mission in the Philippines, March 2008)
HSA Primer (Gabay sa Talakayan)
Human Security Act of 2007
Melo Commission Report
UN Rapporteur Philip Alston Statement
Philip Alston's Interim Report to UN Human Rights Council

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Laguna Labor Advocate Who Has "Polio" Not Exempted From Arrests Suspected Government Agents Attempted to Kill Laguna Labor Leader Another 2 Union Leaders Nabbed, 1 Being Chased CTUHR Slams DOLE for Wage Freeze Amid Global Crisis

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Laguna Labor Advocate Who Has "Polio" Not Exempted From Arrests

Friday, 14 November 2008
Labor rights group Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) expresses alarm over the arrest of another labor advocate from Calamba, Laguna who has polio since birth, yesterday around 12 noon. He was Emmanuel Deonida, 42, executive director of Labor Education Advocacy Development Response Services (LEADER). He was among the 72 Southern Tagalog (ST-72) activists charged with murder and multiple frustrated murders they allegedly committed in Mindoro sometime in 2006.
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Another 2 Union Leaders Nabbed, 1 Being Chased

Thursday, 06 November 2008
Arnaldo Seminiano and Sonny Gum-o, both union organizers of Ilaw-Buklod ng Manggagawa (IBM), were nabbed by 4 policemen, 2 of which are in civilian clothes, around 10am this morning at Manggahan, General Trias Cavite. Seminiano was arrested on trumped-up charges of murder and multiple frustrated murders filed against him together with other 72 S. Tagalog activists (ST-72), including labor lawyer Remigio Saladero Jr.
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CTUHR Slams DOLE for Wage Freeze Amid Global Crisis

Monday, 20 October 2008
"This only shows how heartless to our workers the labor department is. It had proven once again that in both good and most especially hard times, it will always take side for the capitalists' greed and unrelenting desire for profit," this is how Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) executive director Daisy Arago reacted in response to the wage freeze announced by the labor department Friday.
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70 Families of Textile Workers Face Demolition Threats

Wednesday, 24 September 2008
CTUHR slams QC gov't agencies for abuse of "eminent domain" Quezon City government is set to wipe-off a 105 sq. meters community that has been homes for 30 years to around 70 families of textile workers along E. Rodriguez Jr. Ave., Libis Quezon City allegedly to give way for the "extension" of QCPD Police station 8 and Libis Fire station. Residents protest the plan that according to them does not only smells fishy but looks tricky. A QUEZON CITY INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE ON CLEARING OPERATIONS AT GENTEX, led by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and QCPD was already formed to effect the plan.
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From the 36.47 million Filipinos belonging to the country’s labor force, 2.9 million are jobless according to the National Statistics Office’s (NSO) employment rate report for the month of April (2008). This results to the country’s jobless rate of 8%, up from the 7.4% in the same month last year. More Facts

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•The result of the First Quarter 2008 Social Weather Survey shows that 45% of Filipino adults are pessimistic about the economy over the next 12 months. •Prices of food had increased by 14.3% in May pushing the overall inflation rate to 9.6%, the highest in nine years. •According to the study by an Asian Development Bank economist, about 2.3 million more Filipinos fall into poverty for every 10% increase in food prices. More Facts

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•The result of the First Quarter 2008 Social Weather Survey shows that 45% of Filipino adults are pessimistic about the economy over the next 12 months.

•Prices of food had increased by 14.3% in May pushing the overall inflation rate to 9.6%, the highest in nine years.

•According to the study by an Asian Development Bank economist, about 2.3 million more Filipinos fall into poverty for every 10% increase in food prices.

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Workers suffer not just inhumane wages and working conditions but also physical and emotional violence whenever they assert their basic rights. Hence our call: STOP THE KILLINGS! STOP TRADE UNION REPRESSION!

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