IBON Foundation
Reducing PhilHealth’s finances only makes it more difficult to meet its already unmet targets
Pebrero 25, 2025
Related: The implications on the right to health and the people of issues raised in GR Nos 274778, 275405, and 276233
Privatization has made health care more expensive
Pebrero 25, 2025
Related: The implications on the right to health and the people of issues raised in GR Nos 274778, 275405, and 276233
IBON on the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution
Pebrero 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
Pebrero 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.
PH gov’t untruthful before UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Pebrero 19, 2025
STATEMENT
The government’s attempt to obfuscate its systematic human rights violations are rife with inconsistencies and omissions. They do not reflect the legal record and are inconsistent with well-documented instances, especially at the CHR, of civil society organizations filing complaints.
IBON Calls for Structural Reforms to Address Poverty and Inequality as UN CESCR Reviews Philippine Compliance on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Pebrero 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.
PH rice industry under liberalization
Pebrero 13, 2025
