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Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity

AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING CRIMES AGAINST INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, GENOCIDE AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ORGANIZING JURISDICTION, DESIGNATING SPECIAL COURTS, AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES

R.A. No. 9851 | 2009-11-11

Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila

Fourteenth Congress

Third Regular Session
 
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand nine.
 
[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9851]
 
AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING CRIMES AGAINST INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, GENOCIDE AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ORGANIZING JURISDICTION, DESIGNATING SPECIAL COURTS, AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES
 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
 
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
 
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be...