Applicability of International Law.
Section 15
SECTION 15. Applicability of International Law. — In the application and interpretation of this Act, Philippine courts shall be guided by the following sources: The 1948 Genocide Convention; The 1949 Genava Conventions I-IV, their 1977 Additional Protocols I and II and their 2005 Additional Protocol III; The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, its First Protocol and its 1999 Second Protocol; The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and its 2000 Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; The rules and principles of customary international law; The judicial decisions of international courts and tribunals; Relevant and applicable international human rights instruments; Other relevant international treaties and conventions ratified or acceded to by the Republic of the Philippines; and Teachings of the most highly qualified publicists and authoritative commentaries on the foregoing sources as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law.