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.