July 20, 2026
A ten-story mountain of garbage came crashing down on workers and rescuers in Cebu. In Rizal, 420,000 cubic meters of trash gave way, burying equipment and people whole. For Senator Loren Legarda, the disasters exposed a fundamental failure to enforce the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, as facilities that no longer comply with sanitary landfill standards are, by law and in practice, dump sites whose continued operation endangers lives.
“That’s the point. It’s not a landfill. It’s a dump site. It’s […]
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July 17, 2026
In collaboration with Solidaridad Bookshop, Senator Loren Legarda brought new life to the storied halls of the bookshop on Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila, for the first session of the Solidaridad Literary Series, a program celebrating Philippine literature through conversation and community. The inaugural event, held on July 16, featured Ivatan poet Dorian Merina in a dialogue on “Laji: Poetry, Orality and the Ivatan Imagination”, a theme that wove together indigenous voice, historical memory, and belonging.
Legarda described the bookshop as a […]
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July 17, 2026
Senator Loren Legarda is pushing for the institutionalization of the Department of Agriculture’s Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4K) Program, a nationwide initiative designed to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion among Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) by creating and strengthening farm-to-market linkages. She emphasized that the measure seeks to transform decades of neglect into empowerment by delivering livelihood, dignity, and justice to families living in their ancestral lands.
Legarda filed Senate Bill No. 2258 to establish […]
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July 12, 2026
As the nation commemorates the tenth anniversary of the landmark 2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, four-term Senator Loren Legarda stood firm on the Philippines’ commitment to defending its maritime rights through international law, diplomacy, and a rules-based international order.
Rendered on July 12, 2016 by an Arbitral Tribunal constituted under Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Award declared that there is no legal basis for China’s expansive maritime […]
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July 10, 2026
Senator Loren Legarda has filed Resolution No. 505 directing the Senate to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the Philippines’ recent reclassification as an Upper Middle-Income Country (UMIC) by the World Bank. The resolution calls for a deeper examination of how this long-delayed economic milestone can be transformed into genuine social progress, ensuring that prosperity on paper is matched by dignity, opportunity, and security in the daily lives of Filipinos.
Effective July 1, 2026, the World Bank elevated the […]
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