TORTURE LEGISLATION IN THE PHILIPPINES: The torturous Road Ahead Speech delivered by Atty. Neri Javier Colmenares
The Philippines is a state party to almost all human rights and IHL related treaties. As early as June 17, 1925 the Philippines signed the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. It also ratified the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva, 27 July 1929) and the other Geneva Conventions. The treaties it signed ranged from well known covenants such as the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights [ICCPR] to relatively less known agreements such as the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV to the 1980 Convention, 13 October 1995)
