Marcos Jr government rightly called out at UN for its human rights abuses

Hunyo 18, 2025

STATEMENT

The Marcos Jr administration is getting the international attention it deserves. Despite human rights posturing, it is a serial violator like the Duterte government before it.

Sara Duterte’s corruption case, a crushing blow to education

Hunyo 13, 2025

FEATURES

The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte is a crucial step toward delivering justice to the gravely betrayed public.

Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON

Hunyo 8, 2025

Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]

Historic legislated wage hike can be first step to family living wage nationwide

Hunyo 5, 2025

NEWS

The 19th Congress passing a legislated minimum wage hike between Php100 and 200 are important first steps towards a family living wage nationwide.

Water wars: A global battle for public control

Mayo 30, 2025

In the Philippines and worldwide, private sector involvement in water services has only led to broken promises of better management, rising costs, and deteriorating services. The growing number of contract terminations and public takeovers shows growing resistance against profit-driven water management and highlights the need to prioritize people over profits.

Great Cabinet Revamp is a dud

Mayo 25, 2025

There’s no doubt that a revamp of government, governance and the Cabinet is overdue. But the Cabinet revamp can’t just be recycling combined with superficially new names or faces. It should mean new ideas for solving old problems and the political will to act on them.

IBON hits limited BBM Na! program

Mayo 23, 2025

The BBM Na! program smacks of insincerity. It rations rice to poor households, scrimps on funding, and leaves out millions who also struggle to afford food.  This is far from the sweeping effort needed to make Php20 rice a reality and is just a public relations gimmick dressed up as policy.

Election post-mortem: Any hope for the economy?

Mayo 19, 2025

The conversation isn’t about what kind of country we want to build and how, but simply who gets to rule it – leaving the inequitable status quo untouched.

Bolder solutions needed for faster economic growth – IBON

Mayo 14, 2025

The Marcos administration’s top priority post elections of hitting its 6.0% economic growth target for 2025 by achieving 6.2% growth rate for the remaining quarters of the year is absurd