Philippines
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 11, 1987
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- mixed legal system of Anglo-Saxon, Islamic, common law, customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate (Senado) and House of Representatives (Kapulungan Ng Mga Kinatawan)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (judges appointed for four years by the President on the recommendation of the Council of Judges and Lawyers); Court of Appeals
RELIGIONS
83% Catholics, 9% Protestants, 5% Muslims, 3% Buddhists, and other minorities
From the country
- MAY 18, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
- MAY 15, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign...
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into the cases of three female Filipino workers facing execution overseas, for offences committed in their host countries
- MAY 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and...
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and other vigilante groups in Mindanao were responsible for human rights abuses, including hostage-taking and killings
- APRIL 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death...
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of...
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of the death sentences of 13 convicts who are more than 70 years old, or about to turn 70 this year, saying the death penalty law precludes the execution of convicts over 70 for humanitarian reasons
- APRIL 13, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding...
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding 31 hostages that he would show no mercy if any of the captives were harmed
- APRIL 11, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted of murder, robbery and having illicit sex with an Indonesian maid
- APRIL 5, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two...
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two soldiers, Marcial Ambulo and Jovy Rubio, who shot dead six innocent civilians in Mindoro Oriental, to be meted the death penalty for their crime
- APRIL 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union's Portuguese Presidency welcomed...
The European Union's Portuguese Presidency welcomed President Joseph Estrada's decision to suspend the death penalty
- APRIL 1, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), in reference...
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), in reference to the moratorium stated that "The postponement of the executions of death convicts might destroy the credence of our death penalty law
- MARCH 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on a Filipino drug trafficker by the High Court in 1998
- MARCH 29, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted...
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted rapist whom officials were set to execute despite a reprieve granted him two days earlier