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Recycled Php27.1 B COVID-19 response package betrays govt complacency
Marso 18, 2020
NEWS
The Duterte administration’s Php27.1 billion package of so-called priority actions exposes its complacency in dealing with the pandemic and the disruption to people’s livelihoods. This is just another result of the government’s overly militarist mindset where forceful action is crudely seen as decisive action. The spread of COVID-19 needs much more government resources and a much more holistic approach.
3 of 5 workers in Luzon will likely lose wages, earnings due to Luzon lockdown
Marso 18, 2020
NEWS
Potentially 14.4 million non-regular workers and informal earners, or three-out-of five employed persons in Luzon, are most at risk of lost wages and earnings due to the Luzon-wide lockdown. Government should take necessary measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, but these should be particularly sensitive to the plight of low income workers and their families.
Luzon lockdown threatens livelihoods of 11M workers, informal sector earners
Marso 17, 2020
NEWS
The Duterte administration’s declaration of an enhanced community quarantine over the whole of Luzon threatens to displace nearly 11 million workers and informal sector earners. While government is correct to take all necessary measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it is failing to do this in a way that protects the poorest and most vulnerable Filipinos.
International Working Women’s Day 2020: Filipino women workers worse off under Duterte – IBON
Marso 8, 2020
NEWS
Filipino women’s continuing plight is just another result of the Duterte administration’s market-driven pro-big business policies that disregard women and workers’ rights.
Farmers lose Php85 billion during first year: Peasant livelihoods destroyed, food insecurity worsened by rice liberalization
Pebrero 14, 2020
NEWS
Rice liberalization has undermined the livelihoods of millions of farmers and most likely even pushed many into bankruptcy. It will only worsen the country’s food insecurity as already seen with record high rice imports.
Responses of Parlade and Badoy prove IBON’s case
Pebrero 12, 2020
NEWS
IBON takes solace in how the outbursts of Parlade and Badoy provide additional evidence for the Ombudsman of the officials’ misdeeds and misconduct.
IBON defies and will overcome red-tagging
Pebrero 10, 2020
IBON filed a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman to hold government officials accountable for their malicious and baseless red-tagging of so many activists, individuals and groups especially since the creation of the so-called National Task Force to End Local Communism and Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in 2018. We focused on red-tagging because this is […]
IBON files historic first red-tagging complaint with Ombudsman against Parlade, Badoy, Esperon
Pebrero 9, 2020
The NTF-ELCAC has launched “a rabid vilification campaign against members of civil society by arbitrarily and unjustly branding them as fronts of the CPP-NPA, which have been declared as “terrorists” by the President
Low govt priority to health impairs capacity to deal with nCoV
Pebrero 4, 2020
NEWS
The decreasing share for health in the national government budget shows the low priority given to this. This affects the country’s ability to address public health challenges such as the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
