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Article 28 1. There shall be established a Human Rights Committee (hereafter referred to in the ...

    Article 6 1. Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protect...

    Article 2 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure ...

    Article 1 1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right the...

The States Parties to the present Covenant, Considering that, in accordance with the principles ...

Resolution adopted by the  General Assembly on 13 September 2007 [without reference to a Main...

    LOPEZ, J.:This case stemmed from an Information dated May 27, 2005, charging Diosdado Sama ...

ZALAMEDA, J.:Petitioners are before this Court seeking their acquittal from the offense punished ...

  CAGUIOA, J.:The factual backdrop of the case is simple and quite straightforward: petitioners,...

    There are at least six provisions in the 1987 Constitution which protect the rights of indi...

  PERLAS-BERNABE, J.:I concur in the result. Petitioners Diosdado Sama y Hinupas and Bandy Masan...

PERALTA, C.J.:The facts of the case are simple.  Petitioners were charged with violation of Secti...

ACCORDINGLY, the petition is GRANTED. The Decision dated May 29, 2015 and Resolution dated April ...

  SECTION 7. Rights to Ancestral Domains. — The rights of ownership and possession of ICCs/IPs t...

Conceptually, IP rights fall along a spectrum, the cornerstone of which is their degree of connec...

  Ha Data Tawahig v. Lapinid[70] explains the expansive breadth of the legal recognition of IP r...

  We acquit.Section 2 of Rule 133 of the Rules of Court defines the standard of proof beyond rea...

Is there evidence beyond reasonable doubt, first, of petitioners' ethnicity as Iraya-Mangyan IPs,...

Petitioners now seek affirmative relief from the Court, reiterating their plea for acquittal.[25]...

In its Decision[23] dated May 29, 2015, the Court of Appeals affirmed. It focused on the failure ...