UPR Project at BCU Philippines Stakeholder Submission

This Stakeholder Report focuses upon capital punishment. We make recommendations to the Government of Philippines on this key issue, implementation of which would also see Philippines moving towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. We urge the State to make practical commitments in the fourth cycle of the UPR and maintain its abolition of the death penalty and refrain from reintroducing the punishment