Uphold the sanctity of life: Enhancing remedies for victims of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances

• Main Authors: Prado, Reigel, Ramirez, Doris, Rosales, Loretta Ann P., Parong, Aurora Corazon, Bocar, Byron, Mostajo, Josel N., Lozada, Rebecca D.E., Bagares, Romel, Conda, Eleanor, Olayer, Auxilium, Serrano, Evelyn Balais
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Extrajudicial executions—Philippines; Disappeared persons—Philippines; Disappeared persons (International law); International criminal courts; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8140
• Institution: De La Salle University

The right to life and liberty and the right of every person to redress are codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which were adopted and ratified by the Philippines. The 1987 Philippine Constitu...