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Kara Patria C. David, The Outstanding Women in the Nation`s Service awardee for Broadcast Journalism in 2010, marked the Women’s Month celebration at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), March 30.

David, an advocate of children`s welfare, said discourse on women`s rights should be encompassing.

“When we look beyond [femininity as gender], when we treat women as human, that`s true women rights. Women rights are human rights,” David stressed.

Promoting children`s cause on adequate nutrition, David also commended the Institute for its Save Rice, Save Lives campaign as the advocacy aims to reduce rice wastage.

In a survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology, data revealed that each Filipino wastes three tablespoons of rice everyday, registering at least PhP23 million worth of daily rice wastage.  When not wasted, the wastage can feed 4.3 million hungry Filipinos in a year.

The Gender and Development Initiatives (GADi) team, led by  Dr. Irene Tanzo, spearheaded the Institute`s celebration with the theme, Untangled: Women Rice-ing Above Adversity. Joy Bartolome Dudulao coordinated the activity.

Among the pro-women activities implemented during the month-long celebration included exhortation on women during flag ceremonies, wearing of white clothes on Women`s Day (March 8) and commemoration day of the implementation of Magna Carta of Women (March 30), and daily article posts on women and gender-related issues dubbed as Daily (F)e-mail.

At PhilRice managerial level, four of the five program leaders and 11 of 20 branch managers and division heads are women. Its 11-member Board of Trustees is composed of four women while the Association of PhilRice Employees is also led by a woman.

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Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on 5 November 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies so farmers can produce enough rice for all Filipinos.

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