Monthly Archives: May 2015

Get ready to dispel the age-old notion that prehistoric men were nothing more than destructively savage cavemen. New studies show that not only is this presumption terribly false, but that prehistoric societies undoubtedly showed signs of gender equality that are infinitely more graceful than the ones of our society today. Led by researchers at University…

Both parents should be paid to spend time at home with their babies “IN AMERICA there is nothing we wouldn’t do for moms—apart from one major thing,” said John Oliver, a British-born comedian, in his television show, “Last Week Tonight”, on May 10th (Mother’s Day). The “major thing” he was speaking of is paid maternity…

Why do many people still not get this? Mary Jane Veloso got screwed on her way to work. She left home and kin to search for work and ended up in a foreign jail where she now awaits another life-or-death verdict for allegedly smuggling illegal drugs.

Not only illegal but also immoral. This is how Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz described the owners of the Valenzuela City slipper factory gutted by a fire that claimed 72 lives Wednesday, saying they violated labor laws and standards, and illegally exploited their workers.

MANILA – It will take not only days but weeks, months — or even years — to identify all the bodies retrieved from the slippers factory razed by a massive fire Wednesday, a forensic expert said.

Three months after leaving his post as rehabilitation czar, former Sen. Panfilo Lacson disclosed the government’s “lack of support” while he was leading the reconstruction efforts in areas devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has the highest unemployment rate among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), according to a report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) published in 2014.

15 May 2015 – The International Labour Organization (ILO), in a statement issued in the wake of this week’s deadly shoe factory fire in the Philippine capital, noted “often such accidents are preventable” and offered its assistance to improve safety and health conditions in the workplace.

As the death toll rose to more than 70 in the May 13 fire that razed a footwear factory in Valenzuela City, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the families of the dead and the injured workers should receive all the benefits their company owes them, on top of the financial aid coming…

The Department of Labor and Employment has ordered work at a hydropower construction site in Mindoro Oriental stopped after a rockfall incident that killed two workers and injured five others.

Earlier this week, the EU announced a new agenda to address the latest wave of migration through the Mediterranean. Some 30,000 migrants are estimated to have arrived in Europe this year already, and over 1,800 have died in the sea. Last year Syrians and Eritreans were the two largest groups of such migrants. Most of…

Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture The authors of the study argue that sexual equality may have proved an evolutionary advantage for early human societies, as it would have fostered wider-ranging social network (probably not including gardening).

World Press Freedom Day has come and gone. Other issues now clamor for attention. For journalists who are no longer with us, such as those killed in the Maguindanao massacre, there is only silence. This ought not be so. A free press is important yet tenuous, especially in an election year. So it is fitting…

The government will step up efforts to ensure that business establishments observe safety standards following the fire at a slipper warehouse in Valenzuela City that killed over 70 people, Malacañang said Thursday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) says ‘the presence of [Filipino] domestic workers in household all over the world could be considered a liberating force’

THE PHILIPPINES ranked 46th among 124 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as those nations conducive to developing its human capital, particularly in the fields of education, skills development, and deployment.

Better understanding and harnessing the role of faith in development is becoming an area of growing interest and engagement within the World Bank Group. Five leaders of prominent faith-based and religious organizations came together at our Washington, D.C. headquarters last month for a dynamic panel discussion with President Jim Yong Kim on the essential role…

Tue 02 June 201513h45 – 15h15 Blue Amphitheatre Parallel session OECD work on Climate change The international community has agreed to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. There is precious little time before we hit that mark. Effective climate action means having policies pointing in the same…

MANILA, Philippines – “Transactional sex” is one of the causes of the 667 new HIV/AIDS cases documented by the Department of Health (DOH) in March.

SUSTAINED GROWTH SEEN AS WORLD MARKETS RECOVER The value of Philippine goods shipped abroad rose 2.1 percent year-on-year last March on the back of higher shipments of manufactured and mineral products, ending three straight months of lower exports. For the rest of the year, signs pointing to global economic recovery are expected to boost the…

Your impressive résumé and glowing recommendations may be enough to land you an interview — but they won’t get you the job. Once you’re in the hot seat, it’s up to you to really sell yourself to the employer.

Move to help address grievances of women workers across the world SHARERssShare on facebookShare on twitter Add on google plus Send Email to Friend Addthis 2 Manila: The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has opened a 14-seat call centre that can be used by distressed women migrant workers to seek assistance, a senior official has said.

MANILA – Malacanang believes the government’s targeted approach to reduce poverty and hunger in the country is working. This, after a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed a decline in the number of families experiencing involuntary hunger. “‘Yung paglutas sa problema ng kahirapan at ang kaakibat nito, ‘yung problema ng pagkagutom, ay isa sa…

STRASBOURG, France – Intersex children, or those born with characteristics of both sexes, must not be subjected to “normalization” surgery without their consent, the Council of Europe said Tuesday.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the largest labor group in the Philippines, and the Climate Change Commission, observed Labor Day with a landmark agreement that brings Filipino workers directly into the mainstream of effort to mitigate the disastrous impact of climate change. TUCP President Ernesto F. Herrera and Climate Change Commissioner Heherson…

WASHINGTON, DC: Hoping to end the social stigma surrounding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – a Vienna-based men’s magazine called “Vangardist” has released 3,000 copies of its spring issue printed with ink containing a small amount of HIV-positive blood. To create the ink, three HIV-infected people – gay man, a…

The Philippines went up eight notches in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness 2015 report on the back of its improving price competitiveness and growing middle class. The Philippines placed 74th out of 141 countries, up from 82nd in 2011 in the WEF biannual report released in Switzerland yesterday. “The most significant…

MANILA – More than 600 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were recorded in March despite efforts to control the spread of the disease, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday. Health officials said the 667 new HIV cases were the highest ever recorded since the first case of HIV was reported in…

Who hasn’t fantasized about walking into the boss’s office, saying: “I quit!” and then marching straight out the door? The rational side of you knows, of course, that that’s the wrong way to resign from a job. But what is the right approach? Who should you tell first? How much notice should you give? And…