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WOMEN ARE ‘NEW NORMAL’ HEROES – DE LIMA

Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has commended women around the world for their resiliency and ability to stand as the backbone of recovery for every community amid the current COVID-19 pandemic that put people’s life on a grinding halt. While the pandemic has disproportionally affected women around the world, De Lima said that women continue […]

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GIVE COVID-HIT FARMERS, FISHERS CASH AID – DE LIMA

Senator Leila de Lima has filed a measure seeking to provide direct cash assistance to small-scale farmers and municipal fisherfolk whose livelihoods have been most severely impacted by the prolonged lockdowns and the economic recession brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. De Lima, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development filed […]

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BAN US SENATORS FOR INTERFERING IN PH JUDICIAL PROCESS – GO

Senator Bong Go condemned U.S. senators for their “brazen interference” in the judicial process and internal affairs of the Philippines. This came on the heels of the news that a panel of the U.S. Senate has approved an amendment in an appropriations bill that will ban Philippine government officials from entering U.S. territory for their […]