Senator Loren Legarda today expressed support to the Philippines’ accession to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
Legarda, Chair of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, made the statement during the hearing on the convention, which aims to settle issues of parental child abduction by providing a system of cooperation among countries in case one parent brings the child out of his/her habitual residence without the consent of the other parent.
Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance
“The One Billion Cut on the 2016 Family Planning and
Responsible Parenting Program”
This is in relation to the issue on the Department of Health (DOH) budget and to provide enlightenment on the One Billion Pesos cut imposed on the Family Health and Responsible Parenting or the FHRP program of the DOH for 2016, which includes the budget for family planning commodities.
First things first. Although the […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Opening Statement
Committee on Environment & Natural Resources
Hearing on the Proposed Batanes Responsible Tourism Act (H.B. No. 6152)
25 January 2016
Good morning and welcome to today’s public hearing of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on House Bill No. 6152 concerning the declaration of the Province of Batanes as a responsible, community-based, cultural heritage and ecotourism zone.
The Province of Batanes is teeming with natural resources and boasts of unique flora and […]
Senator Loren Legarda today said that she sees stricter implementation of Republic Act No. 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) Law, due to stronger funding support and the ongoing investigation of the Ombudsman on non-compliant local government units (LGUs).
Legarda, principal author and sponsor of the law, made the statement in line with the upcoming 15th anniversary of the ESWM Act on January 26.
“We are experiencing continuous warming of the Earth’s temperature and we must do something about it—to adapt and mitigate. We need to halt global warming now, otherwise, our children will no longer be able to bear the heat,” said Senator Loren Legarda in reaction to reports that 2015 was Earth’s hottest year on record.
