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September 14, 2014

TOKYO, JAPAN: Senator Loren Legarda, UN Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, highlights the need to empower women as frontliners in climate and disaster resilience programs to effectively reduce their vulnerability to disasters during her opening statement for the session, “A Society where Self-determination of Women is Assured”, at the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo, Japan convened by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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