‘Our basic rights are not on lockdown amid this pandemic’
“Our basic rights are not on lockdown amid this pandemic — and to effectively combat this pandemic, the government needs to implement the needed public health measures, to address the people’s legitimate demands especially the poor and marginalized, and to uphold people’s rights, welfare, and dignity. We demand justice, and we will hold the government accountable.”
ECQ, extended until May 15
List of areas under enhanced community quarantine until May 15
PH 0 of 6 in WHO condition for ending COVID lockdown
University of the Philippines College of Medicine Assistant Professor Gene Nisperos told an online forum organized by the health group Second Opinion PH last Thursday, April 23, that the Philippines is failing to meet any of the conditions set by the global health organization for lifting lockdowns aimed at reversing the pandemic.
‘Tulong Guro’ sa panahon ng COVID lockdown
Ang ACT for People’s Health na pinangungunahan ng mga progresibong guro ay naglunsad ng “Tulong Guro” na ang layunin ay makapagbigay-tulong sa mga frontliner, laluna na sa mga health workers at mahihirap na pamayanan habang lockdown.
Gov’t Php1.5T COVID-19 response strategy bloated, misleading
A closer look shows that the government is not actually spending as much as it claims, IBON said. This casts doubts on its real efforts to battle the pandemic, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable Filipinos.
In the time of COVID: Hello, Earth
But as they say in mountaineering, there can always be several approaches to the summit – a gradual meandering ascent or a direct assault. Whichever we choose, as we commemorate this day, we definitely commit that it is going to be a view of a better future.
Migrants in Europe push for full citizenship rights for workers, refugees
In a petition, the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) – Europe said that allowing undocumented migrants to remain illegal are making them more vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic.
On the sixth week of lockdown: Millions of Filipinos going hungry, suffer amid worst mass unemployment in history
This means that as many as 13.6 million or 76% of the 18 million poorest families have not received emergency subsidies and are going hungry, said the group. IBON said that millions of households are at risk of hunger because of the poor reach of emergency subsidies and even of government’s other financial assistance programs.
Coronavirus: Philippine labor office in Dubai suspends cash aid
Many Filipinos in Dubai, who are still employed but whose income has been adversely affected by COVID-19, meanwhile felt they had been left in the lurch.
STATEMENT: Arrest of relief volunteers is also an attack on free expression
The recent spate of red-tagging and brazen use of authority against the alternative media and the people’s growing voice of dissent speak volumes of how the Duterte administration – and its emboldened security forces – are facing the COVID-19 pandemic not only with apparent incompetence, but also under a self-serving, and despotic brand of governance.