SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA HAS SOUGHT THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL REGISTRY FOR FINE ART THAT WILL CHRONICLE EXISTING FILIPINO ARTWORKS AND GUARD AGAINST THE PRODUCTION, PROLIFERATION, AND SALE OF THEIR FORGERIES.
Read More“World hunger remains one of our most pressing problems, an issue that rising economic activity in the name of development has not been able to solve. Based on 2010 statistics of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), one in seven people in the world are not getting enough food to eat,”
Read MoreSENATOR LOREN LEGARDA, UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL CHAMPION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION FOR ASIA-PACIFIC, SAID THAT WORLD LEADERS SHOULD AGREE ON BOLD AND DECISIVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY THE CONCLUSION OF THE RIO +20 UN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TO BE HELD FROM JUNE 20 TO 22 IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL.
Read MoreSENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY REITERATED HER COMMITMENT TO PUSHING FOR THE RATIFICATION OF A CONVENTION FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS AND STRESSED THAT THE PHILIPPINES SHALL BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE CAMPAIGN TO ENSURE DECENT WORK FOR THE KASAMBAHAYS.
Read More“Freedom has never simply been the absence of an oppressor. We have won against the colonial shackles that have plagued our history, but this does not necessarily translate into independence. True independence is freedom of the mind: Freedom to think, to become one’s own, and to take action in one’s own interest,”
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