October 27, 2014
Privilege Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
What does an ASEAN Economic Community mean for our people?
October 27, 2014 – Senate Session Hall
Mr. President,
Distinguished colleagues
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I speak before you today, against the backdrop of an emerging ASEAN Economic Community or AEC by December 2015.
ASEAN is one of the most diverse regions in the world. It is a region of 32,000 islands spanning over 4 million square kilometers and hosting more than 600 million people who speak more than 900 different languages and dialects.
It […]
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October 22, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda
Sponsorship Speech for “Ethnic Origin Act of 2014”
Senate Bill No. 2426, Under Committee Report No. 81
Mr. President,
Our indigenous peoples have shaped our story as a Filipino people—our music, arts and dance, our native knowledge and skills, our deeply held beliefs, our creativity, our sustainable ways of living with our physical environment and most important, our self-worth.
Despite these overwhelming contributions, we have admittedly underwhelmed them as the opportunities, privileges and rights embodied in the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) […]
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September 30, 2014
Keynote Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) Assembly Meeting
September 30, 2014 – EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City
At the outset, allow me to thank and congratulate the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions Working Group on Environmental Auditing (INTOSAI-WGEA) for convening this very important meeting.
We are living in a world with finite resources and yet generations have lived over the centuries like there is notomorrow.
Our natural environment has been compromised. We all need to acknowledge and embrace […]
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September 29, 2014
Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Dayaw 2014: Philippine Indigenous Peoples Festival
September 29, 2014 – NCCA
Our indigenous peoples never fail to amaze me. Whenever I visit a province and go to IP communities, I always discover marvelous things about our culture and heritage like intricately woven fabrics, cultural songs, chants and dances that narrate the story of our ancestors, and the distinct way of life that our indigenous peoples, who are our culture-bearers, strive to preserve.
But aside from me, many others, not only […]
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September 23, 2014
Privilege Speech of Senator Loren Legarda on Climate Change
23 September 2014 – Senate Session Hall
Mr. President,
I deliver this speech in light of President Benigno Aquino’s address at the UN Climate Summit Plenary in New York today.
The Philippines is one of the megadiverse countries and a lot more awaits to be discovered even as we now have one of the highest rates of discovery of new species in the world.[1]
This seeming abundance, however, should not give us a false sense of complacency. […]
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