IBON Executive Director on Duterte supporters’ call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance

March 26, 2025

“Like the Duterte brand, it’s all bluster and optics — ultimately empty and devoid of anything meaningful or positive… And like the Duterte brand, if ignored, it has no meaning at all.”

IBON on the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution

February 25, 2025

STATEMENT

The lessons and spirit of EDSA are not relics of the past as the government wants the people to believe; they can inspire action today. In light of the escalating violations of Filipinos’ economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and political, it is more urgent than ever for the people to unite in a movement for genuine and radical change.

Educator’s Forum for Development on the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution

February 25, 2025

STATEMENT | EFD

The freedom fought for in EDSA nearly four decades ago is made more fragile even without outright Martial Law. The whole State apparatus is being used to target, isolate and attack organized Filipinos fighting for basic social, economic and political rights.

IBON Calls for Structural Reforms to Address Poverty and Inequality as UN CESCR Reviews Philippine Compliance on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

February 19, 2025

STATEMENT

The economy should stop just making a few oligarchs and foreign capital prosperous. Realizing economic, social, and cultural rights requires more than growth and demands national industrialization, land reform and rural development, just wages and secure jobs, and universal social services.

Substantial wage hike urgent amid unabated rising prices

February 6, 2025

The Marcos Jr administration should couple substantial wage hikes with a truly transformative economic plan that includes strategically tempering inflation.

PH govt closed and opaque to protect pork barrel

February 6, 2025

Worsening poverty and hunger in the country despite hyped economic growth underscores how important genuine openness and transparency are for real development and democracy.

IBON Executive Director on Q4 2024 growth

January 30, 2025

Panahon ng Todong Paniningil

January 28, 2025

Bagong Taon, Bagong Pilipino! Iyan ang tagline ni Bongbong Marcos sa kanyang unang vlog ng taon. Wala raw Bagong Pilipinas kung walang Bagong Pilipino na disiplinado, mahusay at mapagmahal sa bayan. Palibhasa, wala pang dalawang taon ng kaniyang termino, mabilis nang nalaos ang branding ng Bagong Pilipinas. Kaya ipinapasa na lamang ang pagbabago sa pagsusumikap […]

About the recently-enacted 2025 national government budget

December 31, 2024

Pres. Marcos Jr said that the newly signed General Appropriations Act for 2025 reflects the government’s commitment to “[transform] economic gains into meaningful outcomes for every Filipino.” The Php6.326-trillion national budget however only reinforces the country’s undemocratic politics and inequitable economy. It still has hundreds of billions of pesos for pork barrel projects, confidential and […]