I applaud these singers for their efforts to bring WORLD PEACE to all of us. We should really work together as one! We are all human beings and we need peace in order for us to survive to the next millennial – I hope that I am still here…its a wishful thinking of my part that the whole world become at peace with each other…but I hope that one day it does happen, if not in my lifetime, I hope for my son’s and his children! Thanks again Good News Pilipinas & Thanks to Inquirer.net for this photo.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Madrigal Singers will be named Unesco Artist for Peace tonight in a ceremony at the Unesco headquarters in Paris.
In a statement on its website, Unesco said its director general Koichiro Matsuura will confer the designation to the Philippine Madrigal Singers, also known as the Madz, just before its concert.
The Philippine Madrigal singers will receive this distinction “in recognition of their efforts to promote dialogue and understanding among peoples inSoutheast Asia, their contribution to extend Unesco’s message of peace and tolerance, and their dedication to the ideals and aims of the organization.”
The Philippine Madrigal Singers, which were brought together in 1963 by music professor Andrea Veneracion, performs many different musical genres but specializes in the Renaissance style for which it is named.
It has won numerous awards, including the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in 2007 (Arezzo, Italy), and its influence in the Philippines and throughout Asia is far-reaching. Responsible for training more than 200 singers and choral music specialists since its creation, the group goes on tourtwice a year, not only abroad but also to the most remote parts of the Philippines.
Named for two years, the Philippine Madrigal Singers are expected to bring their support to Unesco programs on cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. Specific projects include a series of Concerts for Peace, a Sing for Peace festival, and various choral singing classes, workshops, and educational activities.
Unesco Artists for Peace are world-famous personalities who use their influence, charisma, and prestige to help promote Unesco’s message and programs. Among them are musician Manu Dibango (Cameroon), actress Patricia Velasquez (Venezuela), musician Gilberto Gil (Brazil), dancer Miyako Yoshida (Japan), soprano Sumi Jo (Republic of Korea), singer and founder of the musical group Gypsy Kings Chico Bouchikhi (France), and conductor Valery Gergiev (Russian Federation).
This is not right!! I have heard of human trafficking for sale and being sold as slaves to other countries, but to marry a Filipina for promise of marriage and WHAT???? Slavery, and being abused to no end? What life is that? Why do these “foreigners” think that they can do that to other human beings? or is it just because they’re from Philippines and the poor and hungry Filipino people they can entice for a better life??? COME ONE!! Wake up!! They don’t care about you, they’re only looking out for themselves… sure they promise you the MOON but in the end YOU will lose out!! This just disgust me and I think WE ALL need to stand together to STOP THEM!! You can find this from The Good New Pilipinas
MANILA, Philippines—Foreigners who offer marriage to Filipino women in exchange for their kidneys or other human organs risk running afoul of Philippine criminal laws, Cotabato Representative Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza warned in a statement.
“Foreigners cannot procure kidneys from Filipino women in return for marriage. They will definitely be held to account for violating Philippine statutes against the trafficking in persons or their human organs, and/or our laws banning mail-order brides,” Taliño-Mendoza said.
Taliño-Mendoza made the statement not long after a Saudi Arabian manmarried a Filipino woman to mask his buying her kidney, in a bid to dodge the Philippines’ rigorous new rules against human organ trafficking,
Philippine authorities prevented the man’s transplant.
The Saudi man sought a kidney transplant at a Philippine government-run hospital, listing his new wife as his voluntary donor.
Suspicious Philippine authorities ruled that the transplant was not a valid donation, but an effective human organ sale, considering the couple had married only recently and did not speak a common language.
Last week, Taliño-Mendoza urged the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) to run after human organ smugglers preying on impoverished women in her province.
In the Cotabato town of M’lang alone, human organ traffickers have already illicitly acquired kidneys from at least a dozen women, each lured with P200,000, according to Taliño-Mendoza.
“This is one of the most repulsive forms of exploitation of women,” she added.
On Saturday, Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan, a member of the IACAT, responded to Taliño-Mendoza’s call and vowed to pin down foreigners and their local intermediaries engaged in the illegal human organ trade.
According to the World Health Organization, the Philippines has emerged as the No. 5 global hotspot for human organ trafficking. The criminal trade involves mostly kidneys, since humans can survive with only one kidney.
The Philippines’ Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 penalizes the buying and selling of human organs. Those found guilty of engaging in the unlawful trade face 20 years in prison plus a fine of up to P2 million.
Meanwhile, the Philippines’ Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law forbids persons or entities from matching Filipino women for marriage to foreigners either on a mail-order basis or via personal introduction for a fee. Offenders face from six to eight years in prison plus a fine of up to P20,000.
Congress passed the law in 1990, after dozens of Filipino women lured by mail-order bride advertisements were found forced into prostitution overseas. Others ended up as battered wives or enslaved domestic laborers.
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