MANILA — The Philippines, which sends out tens of thousands of maids to work abroad every year, on Friday hailed a landmark International Labour Organisation treaty giving protection to domestic workers.

FILIPINO whiz kids bagged a total of 23 medals last Wednesday, including eight golds in the Blitz event of the 12th ASEAN Age-group Chess Championships at the Indoor Telaga Kramat Stadium in Tarakan, Indonesia.

The United Kingdom has granted nearly P4.2 million to a non-government organization in the Philippines to train health professionals in providing proper documentation and expert testimony in human rights cases.

As your career evolves, so should your resume. Including years of experience in just two pages can be quite challenging once you’re well into your career.

MELBOURNE–IT Services spent within the Asia-Pacific region will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% during the next four years to hit US$205 billion by 2015, predicts Ovum.

THE death of two kindergarten pupils served with noodles mistakenly “salted” with a lethal chemical should rouse the government into reviewing chemical safety practices and procedures in schools, a toxic watchdog said.

MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has upheld the P1.25-million fine on Universal Robina Corp. (URC) imposed by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) and the Court of Appeals after its corn refinery plant was found to have polluted Pasig River with its wastewater.

GENEVA – The International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday passed a landmark treaty giving protection to an estimated 52.6 million domestic workers across the world.

MANILA, Philippines – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will offer low-cost loans to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis Baldoz said in a press statement.

Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento yesterday raised the need to streamline the bureaucracy because of duplication and redundancies of certain functions and mandate of some government agencies that has resulted in an endless blame game in times of crisis and controversy. Sarmiento said that there need to synchronize and harmonize the function of the…

Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council Chairman Jejomar Binay urged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), immigrants and naturalized citizens to avail themselves of the Pag-IBIG Overseas Program.

A religious group yesterday filed a civil suit against former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo for the alleged human rights abuses against its members during her administration.

‘CONGRESS NOT A VENUE FOR CHARACTER ASSASSINATION’ Fearing a congressional investigation of the presidential KKKs, President Aquino yesterday again meddled in the affairs of the House of Representatives as he gave his marching orders to congressmen to stop any and all congressional investigations of his Kaibigan, Kaklase and Kabarilan.

ANGELES CITY, Philippines – Public schools nationwide have been holding classes for two weeks now, but where’s the chalk for the blackboard?

MANILA — When citizens of the small Mediterranean nation of Malta voted in a referendum last month to legalize divorce, they reignited debate in the Philippines, one of the last countries, along with Vatican City, where divorce is still banned.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of legislators who are opposed to the passage of the controversial reproductive health bill is continuously increasing, an official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said.

In a bid to eradicate child labor in the Philippines, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) launched a portal providing relevant statistics and other information that will help and encourage the public to combat child labor.  

Last week I was pleasantly surprised to find that a friend, Sarah Bulalacao Grutas, is now social media director for the National Youth Commission. A young person herself, Sarah is a cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines, with a Creative Writing degree from the UP’s College of Arts and Letters.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has created an anti-monopoly office under the Justice Department to go after cartels and to advocate competition in domestic and international trade. Mr. Aquino created the Office for Competition in an executive order signed on June 9, tasking it to investigate all cases involving violations of competition laws and to prosecute…

There are only two countries in the world without a divorce law: Malta and the Philippines. Both are Catholic-dominated nations governed by politicians who are afraid to antagonize the bishops who seem to be more popish than the pope in their dogmatic interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. But Malta is expected to finally enact a…

THE PALACE on Thursday welcomed improved year-on-year employment statistics, particularly a decrease in unemployment, based on the 2011 Labor Force Survey conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO).

MANILA, June 16 (PIA)–The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday issued a call strongly supporting the bid against asbestos use as it pushes for its inclusion in the list of chemicals identified as hazardous to both health and environment.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/15 June) – The local chapter of the London-based Amnesty International has joined the now much debated Reproductive Health Bill and is calling on the bill’s leading opposition, the Roman Catholic Church, to reconsider its position.

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DOMESTICS – AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. Organising in New York (above), Treatment sometimes borders on slavery. THEY can be flown around the globe with their employer, and then find themselves unable to leave the house. For some it may be an escape from grinding poverty and war zones, to relative comfort and security, at the price…

Nannies, cooks and cleaners left vulnerable as UK fails to back ILO move to help workers who are mistreated or denied rights A survey by Justice for Domestic Workers finds half of its members work 55 hours plus a week and 95% get less than the minimum wage.

SINGAPORE : The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) have signed a two-year agreement to improve labour and workplace practices in the ASEAN region.

HIGH LEVELS of unemployment intensifies discriminatory practices in the workplace as workers scramble to make do with available jobs, labor experts warned. Jorge V. Sibal, dean of the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR), said the high number of jobless Filipinos has made employers more selective in the hiring…

THE COUNTRY’S population grows by about two million every year. That’s like adding half the population of Singapore, or a third of Hong Kong’s, every 12 months. Feeding an enormous, fast-growing population is difficult enough; feeding it at a time of gathering crisis—the new Oxfam report speaks of “spiralling food prices, devastating weather events, global…