IBON Foundation
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
PH minimum wages are family poverty wages
Pebrero 13, 2025
Govt’s labor market optimism disregards hardship of Filipino workers
Pebrero 7, 2025
The Marcos Jr administration’s optimism over the labor market shows it deliberately ignores Filipino workers’ reality.
Substantial wage hike urgent amid unabated rising prices
Pebrero 6, 2025
The Marcos Jr administration should couple substantial wage hikes with a truly transformative economic plan that includes strategically tempering inflation.
Low real wages, more expensive food, as of January 2025
Pebrero 6, 2025
NCR Family Living Wage, as of January 2025
Pebrero 6, 2025
