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September 30, 2019

Women's priority legislative agenda: Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros vowed to push more laws in the 18th Congress that will empower women and address foremost challenges to Filipinas like teenage pregnancy, abuse of young women and toxic marriages. As the key speaker at the “Juana Talks: Bakit Mahalaga ang Agenda ni Juana?,” an event organized by the Philippine Commission on Women last September 27, 2019, Hontiveros said that women’s rights advocates are working hard to build on legislative accomplishments made in the 17th Congress and advance new laws that respond to the needs and concerns of women. Hontiveros is the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality.

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