Press Release 17 February 2005 As part of continuing efforts to regulate migration flows, in July of last year, Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Azmi Khalid announced plans to expel more than one million ‘illegal immigrants’, many of whom are undocumented migrant workers, from the country by the end...

Philippine and international law stipulates that child offenders cannot be sentenced to death or executed. Child offenders are defined in domestic legislation, and in the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which the Philippines is party, as those who are under the age of 18 at the time the...

This report highlights the organization’s key concerns regarding the apprehension and detention of children in the Philippines with primary reference to the main international legal document in this area: the Convention on the Rights of the Child. DOWNLOAD PDF

Amnesty International believes that the Government of the Philippines must take urgent steps to prevent torture and ill-treatment in custody. This report will examine the use of torture through illustrative case studies that focus on particular vulnerable groups. This report concludes with a series...

This report primarily focuses on women in custody in the Philippines who are vulnerable to torture, including rape and sexual abuse. Amnesty International believes that most perpetrators escape prosecution. Amnesty provides a series of recommendations to the authorities to prevent these grave...

In this report, Amnesty International uses the case-study of the criminal investigation into the killing of Rolando Abadilla to illustrate how torture and ill-treatment continue in the Philippines despite the existence of a broad array of laws, procedural safeguards and institutions established to...

This paper gives information on developments in the application of the death penalty by lethal injection to September 1999. It looks at the current situation regarding this form of execution in the USA, China, Guatemala, the Philippines and Taiwan. It also examines the response of professional...

In this open letter to President Estrada, Amnesty International calls on the President to commute Leo Echegaray’s death sentence and to take steps to abolish the death penalty throughout the Philippines. DOWNLOAD PDF

This paper outlines the debate on, and the introduction and spread of, lethal injection executions, summarizes the current legislation and international practice and presents AI’s opposition to the death penalty irrespective of the method of execution. It includes as appendices extracts of...

This document contains some information and recommendations on the Death Penalty which was restored by the Philippines Government in December 1993. The organization urges the President of the Philippines to exercise clemency in the case of those death row prisoners whose sentences have been...

This report examines how patterns of “disappearances” emerged within a context of armed conflict and counter-insurgency campaigns. It includes a number of case studies of people who have “disappeared” in the Philippines. Although the cases listed represent only a small...

Since 1988 at least 550 unarmed people have been killed by government or government-backed forces in the Philippines. The killings occur in the context of counter-insurgency measures against armed opposition groups, e. g. the NPA, themselves responsible for human rights abuses. The victims include...