Statement of Executive Director, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, lauding the Department of Labor and Employment for rescuing 90,000 minors from child labor
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) lauds the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) for rescuing an estimated 90,000 minors engaged in child labor since they began their child laborers profiling initiative in 2018. The Labor department, through its Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns (BWSC), aimed to create a database detailing the demographic, as […]
Statement of CHR Spokesperson Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, welcoming DOLE’s emergency employment for displaced workers under Alert Level 3
Ensuring the livelihood and jobs of vulnerable Filipinos is just as important as protecting everyone’s health during this period of crisis. Having a decent job is essential to live a dignified life and to be able to surmount the challenges of the current times. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) thus welcomes the announcement of […]
Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline de Guia, in Support of the Proposed Media Workers’ Welfare Act
The Commission on Human Rights welcomes the filing of Senate Bill No. 1820, a legislative measure filed by Senate President Vicente Sotto, which aims to create a basic compensation scheme to include the adequate compensation for hazardous media coverages and guarantee the security of tenure or regularization for all media workers. The proposed Media Workers’ […]
CHR commissioner laments DoLE chief’s statement; says migrant workers’ rights also a priority
Press Release from the Office of Commissioner Gwendolyn Ll. Pimentel-Gana | 29 March 2018 Commissioner Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed disappointment over a recent statement of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III criticizing the CHR for its focus on political crimes and the war against illegal drugs rather than on migrant […]
CHR seeks reforms towards better protection of migrant workers’ rights
PRESS RELEASE | 27 January 2018 The Commission on Human Rights welcomed the move of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into the deaths of seven (7) OFWs while issuing a suspension on the deployment of domestic workers to Kuwait. Commissioner Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana, the CHR’s focal person for migrant workers’ rights, said the […]