Statement on November 30 Anti-Corruption Mobilizations

| Written by Office of the President

Thousands of UP Diliman students, faculty and staff flooded the Palma Hall steps after walking out of their classes and offices on September 12, 2025, to condemn the revelations of corruption in flood control and infrastructure projects. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.

The University of the Philippines renews its call for transparency, accountability, and justice, and joins the Filipino people in lawful anti-corruption mobilizations on Bonifacio Day, Nov. 30.

UP itself is actively taking measures to enhance quality management and assurance systems, to effectively address key challenges in public infrastructure, strengthen accountability, and build institutional capacity. We encourage robust discussions within the community as part of our ongoing commitment to good governance.

This is our moment to advance genuine reforms. 

We stand behind our community’s constitutionally protected rights to free expression, peaceful assembly, and association. We urge law enforcement authorities to uphold these fundamental rights.

Together, let us drive systemic transformation, because the fight for a just and honest society cannot wait.