Torture in the Philippines & the unfulfilled promise of the 1987 Constitution
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Table of Contents
- A Filipino in Hong Kong: Looking from a territory with protection towards a country without
- Appendix: Anti-Torture Act of 2009, Republic of the Philippines
- Appendix: Case analysis: Supreme Court's rulings on Vizconde and Abadilla cases are contradictory
- Appendix: Reforms required to protect witnesses in the Philippines
- Appendix: Torturers and torture chambers in the Philippines
- Eleven recent cases of torture in the Philippines
- Overcoming the failure of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines: Changing the operating structures of an authoritarian regime
- The limitations of the Philippines' Anti-Torture Act
- The role of defence lawyers and prosecutors is to encourage witnesses to speak, not merely to find contradictions: An interview with Bijo Francis on the Maguindanao massacre trial
- Torture and wrongful prosecution of alleged bombers and assassins
