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The Act institutionalized and integrated the Social Reform Agenda into the National Anti-Poverty Action Agenda.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted to address the need for legally binding emission reduction targets and timelines. It adopts the ultimate objective stated in Article 2 of the UNFCCC to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Furthermore, the Protocol is guided by principles articulated in Article 3 of the UNFCCC.

The Act provided the regulatory framework for the protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of the environment, as well as measures for the prevention and control of pollution in order to promote sustainable development.

The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 is the legal framework which recognizes and promotes the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples.

The Act established family courts pursuant to the State's policy to provide a system of adjudication for youthful offenders and procedures for the reconciliation of spouses as well as amicable settlement of family controversies.

The Act recognized the importance and impact of broadcast media, particularly television programs, on the formation and intellectual development of children. The Act was passed in order to promote and encourage the production and broadcasting of developmentally-appropriate television programs for children.

The Act re-classified the crime of rape under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines from a crime against chastity to a crime against person.

The petition was filed for the enforcement of fundamental rights of working women under the constitution due to the prevailing climate when the violation of these rights is commonplace, particularly through instances of sexual harassment. In referring to international conventions, the court said that the independence of the judiciary forms a part of the constitutional scheme. The international conventions and norms are to be read into them in the absence of enacted domestic law occupying the field when there is no inconsistency between them and there is a void in the domestic law.

The respondents are three of the 10,000 natives living in that part of Sarawak where the Bakun Hydro-Electric Project (‘the Project’) is situated. Following the commencement of the Project, steps were taken by the appellants to compensate the respondents and also to resettle them. The respondents did not challenge the compensation or the resettlement, but claimed that (i) the Project, if carried through, would adversely affect their fundamental rights, in that their livelihood would suffer from the resulting impact on the environment.

The Intellectual Property Code is the regulatory framework for the protection of exclusive rights to copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets as intellectual property.