National Summit on International Humanitarian Lawin the Philipppines Recommendations: . The Witness Protection Program should be administered by an independentoffice apart from | 63 internationallevel. For many instances, they also see the need for implementation. Thereare quite a lot of recommendations on howtheycanreally the DepartmentofJustice. Perhaps, acombination try to work on the implementation, promotion and. of, or in coordination with, the CHR and the education with regard to IHL. And the challenge DSWD. is, how can they work together on all those . Next is the continuing capability program recommendations. for investigators and prosecutors, to include provision of necessary equipments andfacilities. One Way Forward — the Communiqué It has been noted also that the prosecutors Ms. Tafiada said that one positive way to move themselves andthe judges do not understand the forward is by having a Communique. Each one international humanitarian law as it is. They wasinvited to listen to the proposed Communique focuses on the nationallaw. 2 Lastly, to strengthen the jurisprudence of International Humanitarian Law and also Human Rights concepts. An enriched IHL jurisprudence would enable lawyers to use them to prosecute humanrights and IHLviolations. Ms. Karen Tafiada: Ms. Tafiada expressed her thanks to presentors. all She observed that there seemsto be synergy ora lot of similarities in the different reports. The floor was opened for concerns or questions on the group report. Nobody stood up, thus, Ms. Tahada commented that there seems to be no burning questions from the reports presented. for the Summit. She also informed them that perhaps the communiqué will summarize the intentions of the National Summit on IHL where all of them can see their priority commitments where they could work together with the CHR, government agencies andCivil Society. Ms. Tafiada then called on Ms. Becky Lozada of the PhilippineCoalition of International Criminal Court to present the proposed Communiqué for the Summit. Each one wasencouraged to make additions, suggestions and comments to improve the Draft becauseshebelieves that there is always a room for to improve. HereunderDraft Communique was presented to the body by Ms. Becky Lozadaof the Philippine Coalition of Interna-tional Criminal Court. TL.HOMANITARL in the PHILIP THEMES: — Synthesis Ms. Tafiada observed that there are many recommendationson the policy level which need to be addressedlike the needto ratify certain laws like the International Criminal Court: their additional protocols to create the laws for IDPs, IHL,the landmines, the armstrade treaty on the