Mabini Hall

IT’S special how we run our country. I guess this is why we are special—a special country that is. We source our candidates for the highest office in the land from our upper legislative chamber. No wonder every politician wants to be in the Senate to cast the proverbial “moist eye” on the presidency. The […]

Yet another dollar scam. We never learn. A mere five years from the Multitel/Baladjay series, the pyramiding scheme is hitting the headlines again. This article is about something else—a devious event the amount of which is mind-boggling but will never see the light of day.Leonida is a 45-year-old woman who looks older than her age. […]

Fighting Terror in the Philippines: Legal Challenges to Executive Action
Introduction
In 1995, then President Fidel Ramos called for the passage of an anti-terrorism law in his State of the Nation Address. Concerns were immediately raised over his ambitions beyond 1998, the specter of martial law, the potential abuses against our fundamental rights and freedom and the […]

Understanding the Human Security Act of 2007 (R.A. No. 9372)
Part 3 - Conclusion
          After introducing the basic provisions of new law in the previous articles, this last part deals perhaps with the more contentious issues considering the nature of the crime of terrorism.

Proscription of Terrorist Organizations, Association, or Group of Persons   
          There is no automatic […]

Understanding the Human Security Act of 2007 (R.A. No. 9372)
Part 2
It is said that the fear of the unknown can only be overcome by making it known. This three part series of the Human Security Act is meant to introduce the new anti-terror […]

Introduction to the Human Security Act of 2007 (R.A. No. 9372)
Part 1
          On 30 December 2000, a series of bombs went off in Metro Manila later labelled as the Rizal Day bombings. A total of twenty two (22) persons died including a very young boy named Emmanuel. The spectre of terrorism in the 21st century […]

Republic of the Philippines
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9372
AN ACT
TO SECURE THE STATE AND PROTECT OUR PEOPLE FROM TERRORISM

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall henceforth be known as the “Human Security Act of 2007.”
SEC. […]