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aryamarya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:56:49 +0000

Quiz 2

aryamarya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:30:26 +0000

The City Mayor issues an Executive Order declaring that the city promotes responsible parenthood and upholds natural family planning. He prohibits all hospitals operated by the city from prescribing the use of artificial methods of contraception, including condoms, pills, intrauterine devices and surgical sterilization. As a result, poor women in his city lost their access to affordable family planning programs. Private clinics! however, continue to render family planning counsel and devices to paying clients.

Is the Executive Order in any way constitutionally infirm? Explain.
2.

Is the Philippines in breach of any obligation under international law? Explain.
3.

May the Commission on Human Rights order the Mayor to stop the implementation of the Executive Order? Explain.

Intro Quiz

aryamarya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:15:00 +0000

In 1993, historians confirmed that during World War II, “comfort women” were forced into serving the Japanese military. These women were either abducted or lured by false promises of jobs as cooks or waitresses, and eventually forced against their will to have sex with Japanese soldiers on a daily basis during the course of the war, and often suffered from severe beatings and venereal diseases. The Japanese government contends that the “comfort stations” were run as “onsite military brothels” (or prostitution houses) by private operators, and not by the Japanese military. There were many Filipina “comfort women.”

Name at least one basic principle or norm of international humanitarian law that was violated by the Japanese military in the treatment of the “comfort women.”
2.

The surviving Filipina “comfort women” demand that the Japanese government apologize and pay them compensation. However, under the 1951 San Francisco Peace Agreement -the legal instrument that ended the state of war between Japan and the Allied Forces -all the injured states, including the Philippines, received war reparations and, in return, waived all claims against Japan arising from the war. Is that a valid defense?
3.

The surviving Filipina “comfort women” sue the Japanese government for damages before Philippine courts. Will that case prosper?

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