Magandang gabi sa mga mapagmahal na kapamilya ng mga desaparecido at mga magigiting na tagapagtanggol ng karapatang pantao. Ngayong araw, ika-apat ng Disyembre, ay ginugunita natin ang mga biktima ng enforced disappearance sa pamamagitan ng dalangin. Tinagurian ito ng FIND na National Day of Prayer for the Disappeared. Natatandaan ko na last year tayo ay nagtipon-tipon sa aking tahanan upang magkaroon ng cultural night. Kung tama ang pagkakaalala ko, tayo ay nagtipon noong December 6 o dalawang araw makalipas ang mismong National Day of Prayer for the Disappeared dahil sa labis na sama ng panahon noong December 4.
I vote yes to House Bill No. 7836.
The 2015 National Baseline Study on Violence Against Children, the first of its kind ever conducted in the country, revealed that one in every five or 17.1% of children aged 13 to 17 years old experienced sexual violence, while one in 25 or 3.2% of all respondents experienced forced consummated sex during childhood.
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(delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman on 26 November 2020)
Representative Raul Veloso Del Mar and I, among many others, were neophytes in the 8th Congress which convened on July 27, 1987, a little over a year after the EDSA I People Power Revolution. That was three decades and three years or 33 years ago.
When the current 18th Congress convened on July 22, 2019, 32 lears later, Raul and I were among the 10 survivors of the 8th Congress who were elected to the current Congress.
(By: Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, 30 September 2020)
Mr. Speaker and Distinguished Sponsor: The Constitution grants fiscal autonomy to the Judiciary as well as to the Office of the Ombudsman, the constitutional bodies like the Commission on Audit, Civil Service Commission and Commission on Elections, and also to the Commission on Human Rights, in order to respect and protect their independence from the interference and control of partisan politics, particularly from the Legislature and the Executive.
"My heart tells me not to be a masochist by sharing the harrowing and painful experience of my family during Martial Law. But my mind asserts that I should speak out and disseminate the truth for silence kills. It kills the truth. It kills freedom of expression. It kills the right to dissent. It kills democracy.
Many were forced to keep quiet by the might and terror of Martial Law. But not a few refused to be cowed into submission and be muzzled, notwithstanding the threat to their life, liberty and security.
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