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In a recent study of the ILO, it found out that 61 percent of all domestic workers in Asia were entirely excluded from labor protection, and only three percent enjoyed equal protection with other general workers.
On Oct. 25, thousands of farmers from around the Philippines will march to Mendiola.
"We cannot allow this reign of impunity to continue. We demand justice and an end to the killing spree.
Some of the top causes of death in the Philippines are linked to red meat consumption.
Despite the environmental degradation plantations cause and the harmful toxic chemicals they use, their proclivity for land grabbing and the low wages they pay, the Duterte administration has allocated another 1.6 million hectares for the expansion of plantations.
Homelessness rises as another community is torn down by demolition.
“Our proposal details steps for the modernization and nationalization of our mass transport system. But Duterte personally rejected our request and instead told us to hold a two-month strike first, and he would give us a permit.” - Piston
As landlessness and other root causes of poverty remain unaddressed, the greatest irony persists: that those who work hard to produce food have nothing to put on their own plates.
“Why will jeepney operators accept indebtedness when the jeepneys they already have can be rehabilitated to fit the clean air, safety and other requirements of the government?”
For more than 30 years, BTL farmers have been in a deadlock with the CMU administration over 517 hectares of land.
“We call on him to tell us where Jonas is.”
For more than 10 years, the Burgos family has been searching for Jonas Burgos. Bulatlat has chronicled the painstaking journey of fighting for justice.
"We will still find Jonas." -- Edita Burgos
Like its predecessor, the IACLA will serve as a tool to muzzle dissent, groups say.
Progressive peasant and fisherfolk groups will hold a series of campaign in the capital this month.
Truth was our weapon. Truth effected change.
“What is not being explained fully to the public is the component of corporate takeover and imminent threat of fare hikes in the government's so-called jeepney modernization program.”
Two teachers interviewed by Bulatlat shared joys, inspiration, and overcoming anxieties as they help the Lumad children with their education, which they were deprived of for so long.
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