Leticia Ramos Shahani
Leticia Ramos Shahani (birth name: Leticia Valdez Ramos ) ( born September 30, 1929 in Lingayen, Pangasinan ) is a Filipino high school teacher, literary scholar and politician.
Biography
Leticia Valdez Ramos came from a politically influential family. Her father, Narciso Ramos was not only long-time deputy, but also foreign minister, while she was distantly related to Angela Valdez Ramos Mutte ray tube with president Ferdinand Marcos. Her older brother Fidel Ramos was between 1992 and 1998 President of the Philippines.
She herself studied after attending the primary school and the secondary school of the University of the Philippines at Wellesley College in Massachusetts English literature and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English Literature ) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies in comparative literature at Columbia University, she completed a Master of Arts (MA Comparative Literature ). Then they acquired there a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. Comparative Literature ) with distinction.
Subsequently, she was initially 1954-1957 lecturer at the University of the Philippines, before they Lecturer in English Literature, French, Spanish, Comparative Literature, Humanities and Social Psychology at the Graduate School of the Lyceum of the Philippines, whose dean she also was later. In addition, she was a lecturer in 1961 at Queens Community College, 1962 at Brooklyn College and 1962-1967 at the New School for Social Research.
In addition, it was from 1964 to 1968 Associate of the Department of Human Rights in the UN Secretariat, and in 1974 chairman of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She was also temporarily Secretary General of the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders.
Later she graduated from the Philippine Service Office Examination for higher positions in the civil service and was not only chairman of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino woman, but also an ambassador in Australia and Romania. Between 1981 and 1986 she was assistant to the UN Secretary-General for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and during the 1985, Secretary General of the UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985.
Upon her return to the Philippines after the overthrow of President Marcos during the People Power Revolution ( EDSA I), she was appointed by the new President Corazon Aquino as Vice Minister of Philippine Affairs in February 1986.
After she became a member of the Senate in June 1987, she resigned from the government and was during their membership in the Senate chairman of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education, Culture and Arts, as well as for agriculture. The Senate she served on until 1998.
Leticia Shahani, who is married to the Indian writer and university teacher Ranjee Shahani, was between 1993 and 1996 Senate President Pro Tempore and thus the representative of the Senate President in his absence or illness.