Manay Gina in Kenya for global peace event
FOURTH District Rep. Gina de Venecia was in Kenya last week for the Global Peace Convention where she promoted regional and inter-faith dialogues as a means for achieving peace among nations.
“To build lasting peace, nations must continue the global, regional and interfaith dialogues that the Philippines, Iran, and 33 other states had proposed to the United Nations General Assembly in 2006,” De Venecia said.
Today, more than 70 nations are co-architects in these global, regional and interfaith dialogues.
De Venecia also stressed the role of women in nation-building, saying, “We the women of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas must be vigilant in uplifting and guaranteeing women’s rights, written in every constitution of the world, that men and women are equal, that we are co-builders of our nations.”
Citing the strong maternal tendencies among Filipinos, the lady solon shared the legislations that warrant the protection of women in the Philippines, particularly the Magna Carta for Women that seeks to eliminate discrimination by recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and promoting the rights of Filipino women.
“The affirmative impact of this law,” she said, “was reflected in the 2006-2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor that stated the Philippines as the only country where women are found to be more active in starting business than men.”
The event, held at Kenya’s capital Nairobi, was organized by Dr. Hyun Jin Moon of the Global Peace Foundation and supported by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Among those who graced the two-day peace convention were Sir James Mancham, founding President of Seychelles; Paraguay Senator Lillian Samaniego; former Philippine Speaker Jose de Venecia; Congressman Manuel Ferreira of Brazil, Young Sun Song, member of the Korean National Assembly; Ambassador Oscar Alvarez Araya of Costa Rica; Douglas Johnson, president of International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, Washington D.C; Dr. Markandey Rai, Global Parliamentarian Chair of the U.N. Habitat; Dr. Eva Latham, president of The Netherlands’ Human Rights Teaching International; Dr. Manu Chandria, founding chairman of the East Africa Business Council; Kenya Archbishop Eliud Wabukala; and American evangelist and writer Dr. Robert Schuller.–LM
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