Mr. President,
It is a rare occasion that the Senate considers an issue that recalls the broad sweep of developments in the last century if only to remind us that it proved to be one of the most violent periods of human history. It was characterized by two world wars, the Korean war, the Vietnam war and its 50 years toward the beginning of the present millennium pervaded by the tension of the Cold War that constantly pushed humanity to […]
THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY EXPRESSED HER SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT BENIGNO AQUINO III IN MEETING WITH MURAD EBRAHIM, CHAIR OF THE MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT (MILF) IN TOKYO, JAPAN, TO PUSH FORWARD THE PEACE PROCESS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MUSLIM REBELS IN MINDANAO.
“The meet on the highest level on both sides has planted the trust and good faith so necessary for the peace process to prosper. This can only augur […]
“LISTEN TO THE FACES” OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED LEAST TO CLIMATE CHANGE BUT ARE PAYING THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR IT.
This is the main message Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, wanted to convey in coming up with a photo exhibit entitled Visage: Portraits of Filipinos Facing Climate Change, co-organized with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities headed by Red Constantino.
In her message, Legarda explained that […]
RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE IN CONVEYING ITS PROFOUND SYMPATHY TO THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DISASTER BROUGHT BY THE BOMBING IN OSLO AND THE CARNAGE IN UTOYA ISLAND
Scope: National
Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (8/3/2011)
http://www.senate.gov.ph/lis/bill_res.aspx?congress=15&q=SRN-541
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SRN – 541 (as filed)
(Standard Greetings)
Statistics dominate headlines and discourse on the catastrophes of climate change: inches of rainfall, damages to properties and businesses, costs of livestock and crop destruction, and so on. These are the vital yet ultimately impersonal figures that are often presented to us. Even tolls on people displaced and killed remain just that-disquieting but faceless numbers.
Our exhibit, co-organized by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities headed by Red Constantino, hopes to […]
