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The Executive Order created an arbitral machinery with the aim of expeditiously settling disputes in the Philippine construction industry.
The Law is enacted for the purpose of protecting, cultivating and rationally utilizing forest resources, speeding up afforestation of our land, giving full play to the forests' role of conserving water and soil, moderating the climate, improving the environment and providing forest products. The Law provides that forest resources are owned by the State. It also contains provisions on Forest Management and Administration, Forest Protection, Tree Planting and Afforestation, Forest Tree Felling, Legal Liabilities and Supplemental Provisions.
The Merchant Shipping Act of Brunei provides for the registration of Brunei ships, as well as their transfer, transmission and mortgage. The Act provides for the rules on naming and re-registration of ships. It also contains provisions on the Brunei national character of ships.
Bonded workmen in stone quarries live in unsanitary condition without shelter, clean drinking water or medical facilities. A letter, submitted on their behalf seeking just and humane conditions of work, was treated as public interest litigation. The court discussed the minimum requirements which must exist to enable a person to live with human dignity.
The Executive Order reorganized the Laguna Lake Development Authority, and enlarged its powers and prerogatives with respect to monitoring, licensing and enforcement.
A complaint for rape was filed on behalf of an acutely myopic domestic helper. She was not able to prove the rape due to stringent evidentiary requirements. However, being unmarried and having admitted to a pregnancy, she was tried and found guilty of fornication.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) embodies the legal framework for marine and marine activities, setting out the rights and responsibilities of states in the use of the world's oceans. Certain provisions are relevant to the climate change regulatory framework.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) promotes equal rights for men and women. The CEDAW defines discrimination against women as “any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.”
The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), adopted and opened for signature in November 1979, is the first international legally binding instrument on climate. The CLRTAP seeks to curb, lessen and prevent air pollution, including long range transboundary air pollution.
The 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution seeks to limit, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution. "Long-range transboundary air pollution" is defined as air pollution whose physical origin is situated wholly or in part within the area under the national jurisdiction of one State and which has adverse effects in the area under the jurisdiction of another State at such a distance that it is not generally possible to distinguish the contribution of individual emission sources or groups of sources.