A church-backed labor group has welcomed Pope Leo XIV's newly released encyclical on artificial intelligence while urging stronger protections for workers facing the growing impact of automation and digital technologies.
A church-backed workers’ group warned that unsafe working conditions in the Philippines are costing at least one life a day, as it called for urgent action and condemned what it described as systemic violations of labor rights.
The Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS), a coalition of church leaders and labor advocates in the Philippines, has renewed its call to uphold labor rights as a critical component of human dignity in observance of International Human Rights Day.