Farmers decry government’s lack of preparation for Super El Niño
For farmers, it is the government's unpreparedness that turns it into an even greater calamity, made even worse by the climate crisis.
For farmers, it is the government's unpreparedness that turns it into an even greater calamity, made even worse by the climate crisis.
“No one should be criminalized for standing up against corruption.”
The group strongly condemned the incident, saying it highlights persistent gaps in workplace safety for Coca-Cola delivery workers.
“We should resist fear or intimidation from the state because we know that we did not violate the law,” one of the youth leader said.
The decision of BPO companies to continue operations without regard for their employees’ safety tramples on the right of employees to refuse work by reasons of imminent danger without fear of retaliation from the employer based on the Occupational Safety and Health Standards of 2018 or R.A. 11058 and DOLE Labor Advisory No. 17, s. 2022.
The victim, identified as 36-year-old Joe Ann Escudro, a peasant organizer, was reportedly shot twice in the chest by an unidentified armed assailant who forcibly entered her residence, according to Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas – Negros (KMP-Negros). She died on the spot.
Journalists are not martyrs by choice. They pursue facts so citizens can choose.
Each year brings record breaking typhoons, while the government is steeped in the corruption of public funds, meant for services and the livelihood of our kababayan.
The Senate should not be used as a refuge to evade arrest. The Supreme Court should also not stand in the way of the pursuit of justice.
BIEN called on BPO companies to suspend work and grant emergency leave with pay. The group said that the “few considerations that companies extend to their employees are not acts of compassion but token measures meant to sustain business continuity at the expense of workers’ safety.”
It will promise bold action and demand reparations and climate finance from the Global North while boasting about its role as board chair on loss and damage. Beneath this spectacle, the government glaringly tramples climate justice at home
"Mutual aid and government accountability go hand in hand — one builds community, the other justice," stated in a post by Community Pantry Philippines founder Patreng Non.
"While our houses are submerged in flood water, they are literally swimming in money."
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“Bato deserves to be imprisoned alongside Duterte. Just like his boss, Bato ordered the killing of our loved ones without any remorse."