Securing the Future of Our Overseas Filipino Workers
Sponsorship Speech
“Convention on Social Security between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain”
Senate Session Hall | 21 March 2012
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues,
I have the honor to seek approval of Senate Resolution No. 751 under Committee Report No. 136, entitled: “Resolution Concurring in the Ratification of the Convention on Social Security between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain.”
Background
The United Nations […]
Mr. President,
I am pleased to state my support for this measure that seeks to provide a unified legal framework that will ensure a rational, holistic, and just allocation, use and management of the country’s land resources.
As we know, the lack of a comprehensive land use policy has resulted to an irrational use of our land resources such as conversions of irrigable lands into residential locations, ancestral lands into mining sites, and use of hazard-prone areas for human settlements. […]
Allow me to thank the organizers of this event, led by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, together with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and the National Museum, for inviting me to take part in this forum on intellectual property and traditional knowledge.
There are 110 IP groups in the Philippines, with each community possessing its own traditional knowledge that had been passed on […]
THE DIFFERENT REGIONS AND PROVINCES OF THE COUNTRY ARE DISTINGUISHED NOT ONLY BY POLITICAL BORDERS BUT ALSO BY DIVERSE CULTURAL TRADITIONS, AND SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA AIMS TO THREAD A LINK TO THIS DIVERSITY THROUGH THE HIBLA NG LAHING FILIPINO: TRADITIONAL PHILIPPINE TEXTILE GALLERY.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities, conceptualized the creation of the nation’s first gallery for indigenous Philippine textiles and in partnership with the National Museum, brought it to fruition.
“The Traditional Philippine Textile Gallery […]
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues,
I have the honor to seek approval of Senate Resolution No.51 under Committee Report No. 136, entitled: “Resolution Concurring in the Ratification of the Convention on Social Security between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain.”
Background
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines under Article 22, that, “Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation […]
