Greetings to one and all.
After more than 13 years of arduous campaign, reproductive health advocates finally realized the enactment of a Reproductive Health Law or what is now known as the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012”.
Greetings of peace, justice, and solidarity to all on this most important day.
Today is not only the International Day of the Disappeared, but our National Heroes Day as well. It so happens that this year, the last Monday of August which is when the Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day every year, falls on August 30, which is when the world observes yearly the International Day of the Disappeared.
Video message delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman during State Terror and the Protection of HRDs: An Online Forum on 31 August 2021.
Good afternoon to all human rights defenders (HRDs), their supporters and allies, and special thanks to the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) for spearheading this online forum on state terror and the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs).
(Delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman on the blessing of the New Legislative Building, Tiwi, Albay on 31 August 2021)
Honorable Mayor Jaime C. Villanueva; Honorable Vice Mayor Jose Morel C. Climaco; Honorable Members of the Sangguinang Bayan of Tiwi, Albay; Reverend Father Jose Chavenia, Jr.; members of the family of the late Honorable Vice Mayor David C. Beato, other municipal officials and personnel, guests, ladies and gentlemen, Dios marhay na aga saindo gabos.
The authentic opposition’s Counter-SONA has been institutionalized like the President’s SONA. As its appellation suggests, it is a rebuttal to the President’s SONA. It presents to the people the unalloyed state of the nation, devoid of aggrandizement, hyperbole, and pretense. It is a critique of the President’s declarations, misdeclarations and non-declarations.
