Ladies Room, Madame Senator and Women

I am particularly awed by her brilliance and fiery eloquence.

She's simple and very accomodating but yes, to her enemies she's a force to reckon with. When she speaks, everybody listens. She's one of the very few politicians in the Philippines who possesses unquestionable integrity.

How's that for excellence?

During our celebration of International Women's Month last March 4, 2011, we invited Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago to open the Women's Month Celebration at UP Visayas with a talk about the Reproductive Health Bill and Women's Empowerment. This was in coordination with the Ugsad, the Regional Gender Resource Center and Western Visayas.

All pictures were taken last March 2011.

Always fiery and charismatic.She never fails to capture the audience with her witty lines and exceptional brilliance.

Visiting the UPV Gender and Development Building. (At the background is the unfinished building of UPV Cinema. Construction still ongoing.)

The university was picture perfect that day. Simply beautiful. (Took the shot just right across my morning class.)

All is set for the lecture, right Tita Lucy? Purple balloons and motif for the day. It's indeed Women's Month.

Prof. Jane (emcee) and Ms. Almera of UPV Alumni Office posed while everybody was going crazy with the senator ;-).

Tita Mabeth and Tita Lucy...Great job ladies! Let's toast to that!

That ever familiar facial expression...

The national theme for the month-long celebration was “Magna Carta of Women, the Philippine CEDAW: in support of the Millenium Development Goals" while the United Nation’s theme for Women’s Day was “Equal Access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent works for women.”

Other activities that week include:

Self-Defense for Women...Learning Filipino Martial Arts....Hai!!!

Ladies Room

The U.P. in the Visayas Gender and Development Office was grateful to all those who supported the event. It was a huge success.

Madamo guid nga salamat Inday Miriam!!!