PhilRights Research Output

PhilRights major researches cover a wide range of topics related to human rights such as restorative justive,  children involved in armed conflict (CIAC), women on death row, and the country’s anti-terrorism law among others.  Publishing the results of its studies is one of the the institutions’ means of disseminating human rights information and putting forward its analyses of important issues affecting human rights.
           

Restorative Justice: Legal Framework and Practices in the Philippines (P200)

This book is an initial effort by PhilRights, together with the Ateneo Human Rights Center (AHRC), People’s Initiative for Learning and Community Development (PILCD) and the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies (IBS), to explore the rudimentary bases of restorative justice in the age-old practices of Filipino indigenous peoples as well as in the existing laws (albeit few) of the land. The idea is to cull from the wisdom of indigenous modes of conflict and dispute-management and from the few existing formal laws rich lessons that could help reorient the country’s judicial and punishment regimes.

The Anti-Terrorism Act in the Philippines: A Human Rights Critique (Occasional Papers No.1)

An in-depth look into the US-led war on terror and its implications on human rights.  This maiden issue of PhilRights occasional papers also tackles the Philippines’ role and contribution, including the adoption of an anti-terrorism legislation, in the worldwide efforts to curb this scourge.  The study concludes that respecting and protecting human rights should be a primary consideration in ensuring human security which is not the case in the on-going crusade against terrorism.

Invisible realities, forgotten voices:  The women on death row from a gender and rights-based perspective (P 250)

Combining quantitative and qualitative modes of inquiry, this study looks into the world of women who have been marked for death.  It  offers new ways of understanding the circumstances of women in prison, specifically the women on death row, from a  gender and rights-based perspective.

Deadly Playgrounds: The Phenomenon of Child Soldiers in the Philippines (P250.00)

The child soldiers research project, a three-year collective undertaking of PhilRights, is a major achievement and contribution of the institution to the struggle to address children’s involvement in armed conflict in the country.

The book presents findings of interviews with 194 child soldiers involved in government-backed paramilitary groups as well as armed rebel groups.

2003 Human Rights Report: Human Rights at the Turn of the 21st Century (P150.00)

The report mainly covers: 1. Civil and Political Rights   (CPR) --highlighting  enforced or involuntary disappearance; extra-judicial executions (“salvaging”); massacre;  death penalty;  internal displacement; arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and political detention; and international criminal court and bilateral immunity agreements.  2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) --featuring the rights to food, housing, health, work, and land; the rights of children, OFWs, and indigenous peoples.

 

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Grassroots View (P200.00)

The book is a result of the second phase of the research on Economic Social and Cultural Rights undertaken by PhilRights.  It presents standards and indicators coming from the grassroots that could be used in gauging government compliance of the five rights being focused on in the research, namely: the rights to food, health, housing, work and education. 

Monitoring Economic, Social & Cultural Rights: The Philippine Experience Phase One (P100.00)

Using grassroots and experts’ approach, this trailblazing research that provides a framework for determining standards and criteria on economic, social and cultrual rights and the challenges confronting the advocacy of these rights. The book contains newly articulated or re-articulated economic, social and cultural rights and possible indicators for measuring government’s performance on these rights. A must reading for researchers on the look out for new approaches in research. 106 pages.(Available in English and Tagalog)

Golf Courses: Are They on a Par with Human Rights? (P80.00)

Deals with the possible impact on human rights of golf course development under the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan of the Ramos administration. It gives an overview of the effects of golf courses on people, as well as on other important resources, such as land and water. It also presents profiles of major golf course projects in the Philippines.

 The Philippine Justice System By Dr. Jan Willem Bakker (P100.00)

Dr. Jan Willem Bakker analyzes and evalutes the quality and development of the justice system in the Philippines. The independence and impartiality of the judiciary, the independence and integrity of lawyers, the protection and promotion of human rights and the access to swift and fair justice for all citizens have been key issues in his analysis. Dr. Bakker concentrates particularly on the period between 1986 when the late President Marcos was ousted by the popular EDSA revolt, and 1997.