
Enforcing MLC challenging
Authorities have identified enforcement of the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) through the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers as a key challenge in protecting…
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Authorities have identified enforcement of the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) through the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers as a key challenge in protecting…
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The issue of whether employee toilet breaks were work-related or not recently came to the fore in China after a social security agency denied death benefits to…
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A civilian- and church-led truth commission is investigating alleged human rights abuses and other abuses committed during the Duterte administration’s…
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It starts raining, and it is coming down hard.
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In her debut short film ‘Para-Paraan,’ Mae Chan Li follows wheelchair user Katrina Hernandez as she navigates everyday spaces riddled with physical and social…
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Taliban officials have nonetheless traveled abroad, including a delegation that visited Brussels in June for talks with 15 EU countries on returning failed…
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A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the…
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Over the past few years, the definition of the perfect body has gone through quite a revamp. The conversation has moved in the direction of strong and lean,…
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BALER, Aurora — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aurora approved the Human Rights Promotion and Protection Ordinance on third and final reading during its 55th…
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Rising electricity costs remain a major concern for households and businesses as power inflation climbed to its highest level in more than three years,…
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Amid persistently high electricity costs nationwide, leaders of the House of Representatives are pushing to ease restrictions on households that generate their…
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Two bills were filed in the Senate on Tuesday seeking to scrap system loss charges and the value-added tax (VAT) on consumers’ electricity bills, in what could…
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’Marcos does not have much time, especially if the administration’s impeachment agenda collides with the need to prosecute senators who are its allies.’
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URDANETA, Pangasinan — A Regional Trial Court in Urdaneta City acquitted indigenous rights advocate Sarah Abelon Alikes of terrorism financing charges on 23…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. wants electricity consumers to stop paying for system losses as he calls for an immediate amendment to the Electric Power…
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LAOAG CITY — Students from Special Education (SPED) schools took center stage this week as SM City Laoag celebrated National Disability Rights Week with an art…
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The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) paid tribute to its deaf employees for their decades of service while clarifying application guidelines for the…
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‘Animal welfare advocacy is advocating that the animals that are used currently for food and other industries (leather industry) be treated humanely and the…
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