Leticia Ramos-Shahani

Overview

Leticia Ramos-Shahani born Lingayan, Philippines September 30, 1929. Diplomat, Secretary-General of UN Womens Conference Nairobi 1985; UN Assistant Secretary-General for Social & Humanitarian Affairs 1981-6; career diplomat Ambassador to Australia 1981-6; headed white paper on South China Sea 2012 recommending regional peace and stability; educator: Dean and professor of comparative literature.

Quotations

"[W]hat matters in daily living is the acceptance of others on a basis of mutual trust and equitable sharing, not hatred or rejection." (First Filipina, Sept. 2006; philstar.com)