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Citing statistics that show that teenage pregnancies in the Philippines remain disturbingly high, Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones has filed a bill that would require the adoption of a national program that would curb teenage pregnancies in the country. Aragones filed HB 4742, or the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2017, that seeks […]
Senator Sonny Angara has called on the government to intensify programs that promote the participation and equitable representation of women particularly in the policy-making processes in government as well as in the military and police force. Angara, during his days in the Lower House, was one of the authors of the Magna Carta of Women […]
The Senate yesterday approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to grant an additional 60 days of maternity leave to expectant mothers. Senate Bill No. 1305, or the “Expanded Maternity Leave Law of 2017” was approved with 22 affirmative votes, zero negative vote, and zero abstention. The bill was authored and sponsored by […]
With 20 affirmative votes, the Senate yesterday approved on third and final reading a bill which seeks to regulate and professionalize speech language pathology in the country. Senate Bill No. 462, or the Speech Language Pathology Act of 2016, was authored and sponsored by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, chair of the Senate Committee on Civil […]
With the Philippines having one of the highest incidences of breast cancer in Southeast Asia, Rep. Sol Aragones of the third district of Laguna has proposed a law that would establish a free early detection program for women to prevent deaths from the dreaded affliction. “Breast cancer is the number one type of cancer among […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III filed a measure on February 17 declaring January 23 as a special working holiday in commemoration of the First Philippine Republic and the founding of the Malolos Congress. The First Republic was inaugurated at Barasoain Church, Malolos, Bulacan on January 23, 1899, after the success of the Philippine Revolution. […]
Now that the President has acceded to the Paris Agreement on climate change, Senator Loren Legarda stressed the importance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and UN Global Champion for Resilience, said that in President Rodrigo Duterte’s letter to the Senate with the Instrument of Accession, […]
The House committee on natural resources chaired by Rep. Carlos Isagani T. Zarate (Party-list, Bayan Muna) has approved proposals to declare North Cotabato and Cagayan de Oro City as mining-free zones and to declare as closed to mining applications those areas in the country which have been declared by local government units (LGUs) as […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has called for the immediate passage of significant labor measures in light of the current survey results of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) estimating a big increase on the number of jobless Filipinos in the last quarter of 2016. The survey reports that 25.1 percent of the 1,500 adult respondents have no […]
Senator Sonny Angara has joined the calls for the immediate passage of a bill that aims to establish a national mental health policy in the country to ensure that mental health care is made available even to ordinary Filipinos. In his co-sponsorship speech of Senate Bill 1354, Angara stressed that the government should heed the […]