Media Gallery
The Anti-Torture Law: a good advance but misses out on non-state torture
August 25, 2009 · By Robert Francis B. Garcia, Soliman M. Santos, Jr.
“Torture is torture, whoever does it. The same is true of terrorism.” – C. Douglas Lumis, Terror and the Terrorist (Penang: Multiversity & Citizens International, 2008) The Philippines finally has an Anti-Torture Law, one which legally defines and penalizes torture, as well as provides remedies and redress for its victims. This is definitely a most […]
Read More...The Use of Torture in the Philippines
August 20, 2009 · , http://www.opcatph.org/
What is Torture? The term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected […]
Read More...The Condition of Philippine Prisons and Jails
August 20, 2009 · , http://www.opcatph.org/
THE OPCAT REPORT The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) is an international treaty which was adopted by an overwhelming majority at the UN […]
Read More...THE SITUATION OF THE PHILIPPINE PENITENTIARIES
August 20, 2009 ·
An Update on the Study on the Condition of Jails and Correctional Institutions in the Country Commission on Human Rights Universal standards applicable to everyone have been established with respect to prohibitions that exist in national and international laws against any form of treatment or punishment which violates human rights or fundamental freedoms. Article 5 […]
Read More...United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
August 20, 2009 ·
Adopted August 30, 1955, by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, U.N. Doc. A/CONF/611, annex I, E.S.C. res. 663C, 24 U.N. ESCOR Supp. (No. 1) at 11, U.N. Doc. E/3048 (1957), amended E.S.C. res. 2076, 62 U.N. ESCOR Supp. (No. 1) at 35, U.N. Doc. E/5988 […]
Read More...Philippines – Trafficking in Persons
July 31, 2009 · By Hyun Jae Lee
Independent Study of a Legal Intern to PREDA Research by: Hyun Jae Lee BACKGROUND: Based on the report generated by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (OMCTP), the Republic of Philippines was categorized in the 2nd Tier Watch List.[1] It is considered as a country of origin, transit, and destination for human […]
Read More...Columban issues warning to sex tourists
September 18, 2008 · By Paul Keenan, The Irish Catholic
Campaigning Columban priest, Father Shay Cullen, has used the occasion of his naming as a Person of the Year to warn Irish sex tourists that they will be monitored by his charitable organisation if they visit the Philippines. Speaking after his naming as one of Ireland’s People of the Year for 2008 at an awards […]
Read More...The Conversion of the U.S. Military Bases and Facilities in the Philippines
July 25, 2008 · By Roland G. Simbula
MILITARY BASE CONVERSION SIMBULAN (PDF)
Read More...Pitfalls open in Philippine mining
July 25, 2008 · By Joel D Adriano, AsianTimes
MANILA – Australian ambassador to the Philippines Rod Smith last week jumped to the defense of the dozen or so Australian mining companies operating there, in what is turning out to be a nightmarish venture for most of them. It’s the latest sign that all is not well in the Philippine mining business, despite the […]
Read More...Philippine Poverty and Inequality Situation (as of March 2008)
March 9, 2008 ·
Poverty Incidence According to the Social Weather Stations (January 2008): • Almost 1 out of 2 Filipinos see themselves as poor. • 46% of Filipinos families (estimated 8.1 million families or about 40.5 million Filipinos out of the 2007 projected population of 86 million) see themselves as poor. Available data from the government: • 1 […]
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