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TEKA SANDALI | Nasaan na ang pangakong allowance para sa health workers?

TEKA SANDALI | Nasaan na ang pangakong allowance para sa health workers?

The Filipino nurses continue to call for the release of the remaining allowances, salary hikes for health workers, and the priority of the health sector under Marcos Jr.'s administration. This was after their initial victory of the promised COVID-19 health allowances approved by the Department of Budget and Management.

Citizens criticize Marcos Jr.’s absence in hardest hit areas, low budget for disaster response

Citizens criticize Marcos Jr.’s absence in hardest hit areas, low budget for disaster response

"With the increasing threats of climate change President Marcos Jr. said that this is included in his top priorities. Yet he cuts the budget on departments that address this issue, we are slapped on our face by the inutility of this regime to increase their intelligence and confidential funds," scientists group AGHAM said.

Repression for land and profits

Repression for land and profits

Over the past five years, at least two people from rural communities have been killed weekly in the struggles against land grabs, based on estimates by the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP). More than eight are arrested and detained weekly, and more than two are harassed or assaulted.

How a Moro woman has preserved their culture while helping provide food for displaced families

How a Moro woman has preserved their culture while helping provide food for displaced families

While their reality seemed gloomy at the evacuation site, it was also where Salika Maguindanao co-founded the Maranao Collectible Service Cooperative, which has helped them preserve their tradition and provide a livelihood to those who lost their homes and livelihood to the Marawi Siege.

Peasant women mark int’l rural women’s day

Peasant women mark int’l rural women’s day

“This important day was celebrated every year to recognize the contribution of rural-based women to the attainment of household and national food security, agriculture, and economic development, but in the Philippines, the sector remains a victim of system-wide poverty, hunger, and abuses, fueled by the chronic landlessness, oppression and exploitation, and suppression of its assertion of land rights."

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