“We encourage the medical profession to ask the hard questions: Why exempt large corporations, especially foreign ones, from paying taxes? Why squeeze hard-working professionals and workers for their meager earnings?” said Crisostomo.
“Billionaire’s and tycoons wealth at the expense of workers and peoples’ rights.” This is the joint statement of Defend Job Philippines, Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association and Nagkakaisang Manggagawa sa Print Town after the release of the 2014 FORBES Magazine’ Most Richest. A protest rally is staged at the financial capital of the Philippines to denounce the massive and illegal dismissal of workers, union busting, low wages and contractualization.
As of September 2013, the country’s General Government (GG) Debt stood at P4.468 trillion or 39.7% of GDP, lower than 40.3% as of September 2012. The current GG debt is P4.468 trillion or 39.7% of GDP, slightly up quarter-on-quarter from P4.315 trillion or 39.1% of GDP as of June 2013, but has improved significantly since President Aquino took office in 2010.
“We are infuriated with the government’s ineptitude to provide the needs of victims of disasters, especially children”, said Kharlo Felipe Manano, Secretary General of the Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns, an alliance of twenty-four (24) child-focused organizations in the Philippines.
The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) expresses its condemnation and serious concern over the killing of three members of the legal profession in just a period of two weeks from February 19 to March 4, as it relays its heartfelt condolences
to the families of Atty. Noel Archival of Cebu City, Judge Reynerio Estacio of Zamboanga City and retired prosecutor Issan Sawadjaan also of Zamboanga City.
In five days, this March 8, the Yolanda survivors will be marking the fourth month of the disaster. And genuine help from the government remains bleak. The recent news show the real state of the survivors. In one the most badly-hit areas, the municipality of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, all the survivors could do is pin their hopes on the micro-lending facilities promised by the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
With the unexpected citywide water interruption on February 27 caused by the Mindanao-wide power outage, Davao City Water District will postpone the three sets of water cuts scheduled February 28 – March 2.
The film programme gave space to show films on political and civil and economic, social and cultural rights It aims to show the real dire human rights situation in the country and generate discussion, collaboration and collective action on the issues hounding the human rights situation in society today. These films tackle the whole range of human rights, from economic, social and cultural rights to the political and civil rights.
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