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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.
The objective of the Policy Mechanism of National Disaster Management and Relief is to draw a Land Disaster Management and Relief Policy based on the level of disaster and to establish a Management Mechanism which decides the role and responsibility of agencies involved in actions against a disaster.
The Ganges Treaty illustrates that a legally binding agreement is not the same as meaningful cooperation between the parties. The treaty favours the hydro-hegemonic state (India) and solidifies the status quo. It does not create a community of interest in the shared management of the river and has left Bangladesh with numerous concerns and unresolved issues.
The 1996 Protocol to the London Convention supersedes the Convention as between Contracting Parties to the Protocol who are also parties to the London Convention. The Protocol obliges Contracting Parties to prohibit dumping of wastes or matter other than those mentioned in its Annex 1. For those not mentioned in Annex 1, a permit is required for their disposal from the State's designated authority.
The Fourth World Conference on Women adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Beijing Declaration reaffirms the commitment to equal rights and the inherent human dignity of women and men, and other purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Declaration on the Right to Development.