WPN hits private firms’ impunity, backs growing calls to terminate PrimeWater deals

June 26, 2026

Right to water violations under JVAs, mounting consumer complaints, and government failure to protect the people from problematic public-private partnership have persisted for years.

Groups hold media forum, exposing privatization as systemic theft at play

December 8, 2025

Public funds and resources continue to be used by bureaucrats and private entities to operate and manage public facilities to enrich themselves and stay in power.

Water for the People Network Position Paper at the Senate Committee on Public Services Hearing

October 7, 2025

Millions of Filipinos are being denied the right to water due to harmful Joint Venture Agreements that have privatized our public water districts.

High time to end privatization behind high fees – SUKI

July 3, 2025

For years, privatization through government’s profit-driven PPPs have burdened the public with high user fees.

Water for the people: Groups buck worsening water privatization

November 18, 2023

Various water stakeholders gathering in a conference to study water privatization instead called for strengthening people’s control over resources as basic as water.

Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis

July 1, 2023

Delegation members of the Philippine Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Watch network are in Geneva to report continuing rights abuses and lack of accountability amid a worsening economic crisis under the first year of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s presidency.

Gov’t fails to convince int’l community of improved human rights situation in PH

November 15, 2022

At the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, many countries expressed concerns about ongoing human rights violations in the country and the Philippine government’s inadequate responses to recommendations made in the last cycle in 2017.

PH gov’t violated social and economic rights during and after COVID-19

November 14, 2022

No Moving on When Democracy is Threatened with Elitist, Authoritarian Politics

May 25, 2022

Filipino educators join the mounting calls of concerned citizens, communities and people’s organizations for the COMELEC to not dismiss and instead to seriously investigate reports of fraud, disinformation, disenfranchisement, and vote-buying in the 2022 national elections.