Legislating for Terrorism: The Philippines’ Human Security Act 2007

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  • Pauline E. Eadie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.226

Keywords:

Law, Philippines

Abstract

In February 2007 the Philippine Senate passed the Human Security Act (HSA) otherwise known as Republic Act No. 9372: An Act to Secure the State and Protect our People From Terrorism. Philippine Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. was heavily involved in the final drafting of the HSA. He gave it its final name shortly before the Senate Chamber passed it into law. Previously the Act had been known by various titles including ‘An Act to Deter and Punish Acts of Terrorism and for Other Purposes’ (Senate Bill No. 2137) and ‘An Act to Define and Punish the Crime of Terrorism, the Crime of Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, and the Crime of Proposal to Commit Terrorism, and for Other Purposes (Senate Bill No. 2187). Thus the Human Security Act exists as an instrument of counter terrorism as opposed to human security policy.

Author Biography

Pauline E. Eadie

Pauline Eadie is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the Director of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies. Her research interests lie in the field of South-East Asian Security

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Published

2011-11-11

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011)

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