RESOLUTION COMMENDING THE ALTERNATIVE INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, INC. (AIDFI) FOR BEING ONE OF THE SIX 2011 RAMON MAGSAYSAY FOUNDATION AWARDEES FOR THEIR GREEN TECHNOLOGIES THAT HELP THE RURAL POOR ACCESS WATER
Scope: National
Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (08/09/2011)
http://www.senate.gov.ph/lis/bill_res.aspx?congress=15&q=SRN-544
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SRN-544 (as filed)
Mr. President,
Today the international community honors the Indigenous Peoples of the world. Today the struggles of the IPs in the Philippines deserve to be spoken and heard in this august Chamber.
We have begun to make significant strides in protecting the rights of our IPs over the past twenty years. After centuries of disregard, Congress passed a landmark legislation called the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997, which restored the rights of indigenous people over their ancestral domains, upheld […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA, CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, TODAY URGED HER FELLOW SENATORS TO VOTE FOR THE CONCURRENCE OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC).
This favorable recommendation was aired by Legarda in her co-sponsorship speech as Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on the Rome Statute of the ICC, reports out the treaty to the Senate plenary.
The Instrument of Ratification of the treaty was signed by the […]
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 […]
