by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal
MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights of women.
The CHR said that women and girls as human beings are entitled  along with men and boys to civil, political, economic, social [...]

Maricar Cinco, Southern Luzon Bureau
Inquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines—All it took was a slip of paper.
That determined whether a worker goes or stays, at least for now.
It will tell if the worker is “Intel inside.”
The workers have awaited the handing out of the half-sheet of paper since Intel Corp., a US-based microchip company, announced on Jan. 22 that [...]

Dale G. Israel
Cebu Daily News

Picketing former employees of Giardini del Sole Wooden Furniture Inc. yesterday agreed not to block the entry of those still employed by the company into the firm’s factory in barangay Alang-Alang, Mandaue City.
In exchange, the management of Giardini del Sole promised to give the retrenched workers their separation pay and back [...]

Reuters
Inquirer.net

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) Annual inflation eased to a 10-month low of 7.1 percent in January on declining food and oil prices, the statistics office said Thursday.
Inflation in December was at 8.0 percent from a year earlier.
Core inflation, which strips out some volatile food and energy items, edged down to an annual 6.9 percent [...]

Tonette Orejas, Central Luzon Desk
Inquirer.net
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Another Filipino working at the shipyard of the Korean-owned Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines Inc. in Subic, Zambales, died at the work site Friday after a heavy metal pipe being moved by other workers fell on his head.
Another worker was injured in the incident that [...]

from ITUC-CSI
LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will sharply cut growth forecasts this month and the world will not return to strong growth for two or three years, IMF Managing-Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Wednesday.
“Things are not improving,” Strauss-Kahn said in an interview with the BBC’s “Hard Talk” programme. The International Monetary [...]

from ITUC-CSI
Washington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine):  Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the conclusion today of two days of meetings with an 85-member international trade [...]

Dennis O’Reilly
CNET News.com
After years of writing about PCs, I’ve concluded that computer users care about only three things (in no particular order): speed, security, and reliability. But the fastest, safest, sturdiest PC in the world won’t do you any good, if overuse has made you too sore to turn the darn thing on.
Organizations of all [...]

Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Amid a looming economic slowdown in the Philippines for 2009, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is expected to remain strong. However, growth will be as big as 2008, an official of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) said.
“No doubt the BPO industry will remain solid in 2009 and [...]

Honesto General
Philippine Daily Inquirer

On Dec. 10, in observance of the 60th year of the of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the group Karapatan, at a news briefing in a Quezon City restaurant, presented a 32-page 2008 Human Rights Report, which was featured by the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a front-page story.
Human rights — i.e., [...]