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IBON update on CHR, barangay officials’ inspection of premises

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), through its Investigation Department led by Mr. Ronnie Rosero, and Barangay Sacred Heart officials, inspected last Friday the offices of IBON Foundation, IBON International and AlterMidya. The entire inspection was also covered by members of the media. The CHR and Barangay officials afterwards confirmed the legitimacy of the offices and organizations […]

News

PH economy headed towards 3rd year of slow growth — IBON

November 8, 2019

IBON warns of possible PNP harassment

November 7, 2019

Inflation slowing due to a sluggish economy — IBON

November 6, 2019

Agri sector slumps due to continuous government neglect

October 16, 2019

IBON launches alternative to failed govt econ agenda

October 10, 2019

IBON questions CITIRA job creation claims

October 3, 2019

Duterte admin banning aid to hide human rights violations

September 24, 2019

Job creation volatile, mostly of poor quality work

September 7, 2019

Features

The mass transport crisis is real. Millions of commuters in the National Capital Region (NCR) suffer inconvenient and inefficient travel every day. Average commuting time was around 37 minutes in 1980 and 51 minutes in 1996, according to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). A survey by commuter group Komyut reported this rising to as […]

Solving the NCR mass transport crisis

October 28, 2019

Yet another round of water service interruptions, mounting unmet sanitation infrastructure obligations, and looming water rate hikes highlight the failure of water privatization. It is unconscionable that water firms’ profits continue to rise and they are even expanding abroad despite their failure to meet their domestic service obligations. Water privatization is failing to ensure people’s […]

Unmet targets: Poor water and sanitation service is failure of privatization

October 25, 2019

This was presented by Dr. Judy Taguiwalo at the forum “UNJUST: Second Year of Detention of Development Workers Benito Quilloy and Rita Espinosa for Siding with the Poor”organized by the Assert Socio-Ecoonomic Initiatives Network (ASCENT) Mayaman ang Pilipinas pero naghihirap ang mamamayan. The Philippines is a rich country but the people are poor. Given this, […]

The Dangers of Development Work

October 20, 2019

One of President Duterte’s many promises at the start of his term was to resolve Metro Manila’s transport and traffic problems. But three years later, these remain just as bad if not worse than ever. The various programs and schemes that the government has come up with have done little to fix the transport and […]

Transport and traffic woes: govt’s epic fail

September 30, 2019

The Duterte government argues that the protections for the economy in the 1987 Constitution are outdated, and that removing them will increase foreign direct investment (FDI) and improve competitiveness. This is however oblivious to the reality of growing protectionism worldwide amid slowing growth, trade and investment. Adverse global economic conditions undermine the arguments for economic […]

Global crisis even less reason for charter change

September 28, 2019

Last of a two-part series Here is the social science The climate change we are experiencing is not natural. It is overwhelmingly anthropogenic – according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it is extremely likely (with more than 95% probability) to be the result of human activity. Climate change today is not the […]

Part 2: Why the climate strike is a social justice issue (and why it should strike at the core of growing fascism)

September 23, 2019

Infographics

Update on the PH rice industry

Infoposts

No need for Kaliwa Dam

Photoquotes

On the July 2019 inflation

Topics

Build! Build! Build!

People Economics

Networks

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