treaties
and
international
domestic
agreements),
principles of customary
principles
law
are
automatically
part
of
low
Philippine law without the need for any
law.
This
is
of international
are
general
international
because
customary
principles
of
law.
Protection of human right to life as international
customary law
With regard to human rights principles
principles
which
systems generally.”
nature,
are of international
in a long
Philippine
customary
line of cases,
Supreme
Court
which
and
justice,”
local
to
legal
Examples are "general principles of i.e,,
has
the general
under
"basic
the
consistently applied the same as valid
binding
are
law.
principles of fairness and
and
the
"general
principle
against
discrimination”
In one of the most recent explanations
embodied
in the Universal Declaration
of the principle, in Poe-Llamanzares v.
of
Elamparo,
the
Philippine
Supreme
Covenant
Court
that
generally
accepted
held
principles of international
Human
Rights,
on
Cultural
on
the
the
s
International
Economic,
Rights,
Convention
law include
the
which
Social
and
International
Elimination
of All
international custom as evidence of a
Forms
general practice accepted as law, and
Convention
general
principles
law
Education,
recognized
by
The
Concerning
law
of Employment
are
Court declared with definitiveness that
term
‘general
recognized
by
civilized
of
nations.
principles
civilized
of
nations”
of
principles "established by a process of
these
reasoning” or judicial logic, based on
principles
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Racial
Discrimination,
Against
and
are
Discrimination
ILO Convention
Discrimination
and
the
which
the
in
No. 111
in Respect
Occupation.
same
underlie
The
core
the