Senator Loren Legarda today hailed the launch of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 10931, the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act of 2017, which will subsidize tuition fee and other school fees of students enrolled in state universities and colleges (SUCs), local state universities and colleges (LUCs), and state-run technical vocational institutions (TVIs).
Read MoreAs the head of the Philippine delegation to the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, Switzerland, Senator Loren Legarda called for a more aggressive effort to achieve the agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially on the aspect of renewable energy development.
Read MoreSenator Loren Legarda has urged fellow legislators at the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to craft laws that would better protect women and children.
Legarda, Head of the Philippine Delegation to the 138th IPU Assembly in Geneva, made the intervention during the panel discussion on “Why are women still underrepresented in politics? The root causes and how to address them.”
Read MorePerhaps one of the legislators who were recently inducted into the reserve officers corps can do the honors in filing these important bills, among them new AFP colonels House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas, Senators Loren Legarda and Manny Pacquiao, and Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia.
Read MoreSenator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations, Finance and Climate Change, is the Head of the Philippine Delegation to the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from March 24-28, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Legarda will be joined by fellow legislators—Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senator Nancy Binay, Deputy House Speaker Raneo Abu, Deputy House Speaker Ferdinand Hernandez, and House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas.
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