State terrorism in the Philippines – the deadliest country in the world for farmers – is one signature away to becoming law
PCFS condemns the Duterte administration for taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic in pushing for such an atrocious law. It is already disheartening that the rural peoples were not provided with adequate social protection to cushion the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, they are being stripped off the little legal protection that rural peoples have as citizens of this country.