INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

 The employer in a project is not an expert in the field of construction. The employer is one who only knows business thus, he needs someone with expert knowledge in the field to help him implement his project successfully. It ...

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THE UN CONVENTION OF THE LAW OF THE SEA

Introduction On the 22nd of January 2013, the Republic of Philippines commenced, under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an arbitration procedure against the People’s Republic of China. The dispute concerned the South ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 6

Ancestral domain, customary and statutory rights to the land The right to ancestral domain, collective ownership of land, customary land rights and the concept of "time immemorial” possession have been claimed as exceptions to the regalian doctrine and private individual ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 5

Land Rights in Domestic Law There are two basic principles that underlie most national legal systems, constitutions and domestic laws on the question of land ownership. The first is the right of private ownership. This right includes not only the ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 4

Land Tenure, Livelihood and the Environment In Centre for Environmental Law, WWF-I v. Union of India and others,11 the petitioners, World Wide Fund for Nature, approached the Supreme Court of India by way of a public interest petition in 1995. ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 3

International and Regional Human Rights Law and Land Rights Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 2. No one shall be ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 2

It is not difficult to see why historically land rights have been a flash point and landlessness invariably a cause of social unrest. Feudal exploitation, the process of colonization and the passing of natural resources to state control, encroachments by ...

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LAND RIGHTS, PART 1

How can we say we own the land? How can we own something that will outlive us?Truly, it is not we who own land, rather it is the land which owns us.  Paraphrasing Macli-ing Dulag, Tribal Chieftain of theKalinga, the ...

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LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS OF RURAL WOMEN IN BANGLADESH, PART 2

Author(s) names: Shah I Mobin Jinnah Organization name: Community Development Association (CDA) January 2013 The Issues of Movements and which are for Reconstruction in Bangladesh: Release access land according to ceiling allocation. Reconstruction of Land Management. Initiate to distribute Khas ...

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