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June 16-22, 2022
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Marcos wants to join UN meet in New York in September, vows to protect human rights MANILA – Expect incoming President F erdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to attend the nited ations eneral Assembly this September. Marcos expressed his desire to join the meet as he guaranteed that human rights will be protected during his watch. Marcos made the vow during his meeting with nited ations esident Coordinator to the hilippines ustavo onzales at his headquarters in Mandaluyong City last week. onzales, on the sidelines of his meeting with Marcos, said the President-elect
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emphasiz ed the need to ensure a “high level of accountability” for human rights violations. “On human rights, my message was to, first of all, reiterate the support of the nited ations to all the efforts of the Philippines on the human rights agenda,” he said. “He (Marcos) mentioned also the importance of ensuring a high level of accountability in terms of human rights.” onzales said Marcos also bared that there has been a series of consultations to uphold and protect human rights in the Philippines.
“He even shared that he is conducting a number of consultations to ensure the best way of supporting the human rights agenda. So this was qui te encouraging,” onzales said. During their meeting, Marcos also expressed his intent to participate in the th session of the eneral Assembly A in September this year, said Executive Secretary-designate Vic Rodriguez in a separate statement. “President-elect Bongbong Marcos said in response that it would be very important to attend and represent the Philippines in
the eneral Assembly and meet with other world leaders,’” Rodriguez said. This, after onzales discussed the preparations for Marcos’ possible attendance at the A in ew ork. “This general assembly meeting will be the first time that the residentelect F erdinand Marcos Jr. will be in front of an important number of heads of state. So, this is a great and -- I think -- a historic opportunity for the President and for the Philippines to share the new vision, the new challenges and at the same time the new opportunities,” he said.
The group said that there is a large students educational and human rights to displacement in San F rancisco, this enroll-
(From page 1) body of research that shows that students learn their heritage language,” the group la- ment cap seems to be another attack on our
States, the group said. “In a city that boasts F ilipino as the third most used language, and a city-wide Language Ordinance to enforce F ilipino language access to its citiz ens, this decision is ba ing. S SD chose to limit the ilipino W orld Language Program enrollment to a mere 11 students for each of the incoming Kindergarten and 1st grade classes at Longfellow Elementary School,” the group said. As a result of the enforcement, Longfellow q uickly exceeded the cap and now a number of families attempting to enroll their students into the program have been denied.
who know more than one language are more likely to achieve academic success. (Bankston, Zhou) Moreover, research, according to the group, is also showing that students who learn about their cultural history and heritage are more likely to have high rates of self-esteem and self-actualiz ation which also leads to academic success. (Petalio, David, austino, Milne, Sleeter, Sacramento, ohli, enning, angnath, Dee and enner, Curammeng, De Los ios, DausMagbual, Desai, and Tintiangco-Cubales “Despite this growing body of research that shows the positive impact of language and cultural learning, S SD is denying
mented. “This is an act of ineq uity and AntiAsian sentiment. The cap on enrollment for Longfellow’s F ilipino Language program is a step in the direction of identifying the program as having less value and this is a subtle move to threaten the program’s existence.” The protesters vowed to “not let this happen as students, families, teachers, alumni, community groups, and politicians decry this move as ludicrous, raising the issue of racial eq uity.” “During a time of heightened violence against Asian Americans, and the record number of low-income, working class families, including F ilipinos experiencing
community,” the protesters said. The group said it believes that S SD should promote a vision of eq uity and that it cannot have a truly eq uitable vision be achieved by limiting a program that provides a multilingual, multicultural space for students and their community. “Shrinking the program to a mere 11 students in each grade sets the precedent for the future of the program to be chronically underfunded and underutiliz ed. W e are left to conclude that S SD does not value the program, and does not want to prioritiz e or value F ilipino families and students,” the protesters said. (Jun Nucum)
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