Rosario Manalo is the Special Representative of the Philippines to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and has served as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in charge of International Economic Relations from 1997 to 2001.
13 Facts About Rosario Manalo
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Rosario Manalo earned Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and Bachelor of Science in Jurisprudence degrees, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Master of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy from Long Island University in New York.
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Rosario Manalo was the first woman to pass the Philippine Foreign Service Officers' Examinations in 1959.
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Rosario Manalo was based in Manila for eighteen years before getting her first foreign assignment.
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Rosario Manalo was the Philippine Permanent Delegate to the UNESCO from 1990 to 1994, and the European Economic Community from 1979 to 1987.
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Rosario Manalo was Chairwoman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from 1983 to 1988.
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Rosario Manalo was Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in charge of International Economic Relations from 1997 to 2001.
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Rosario Manalo is the Philippine representative and one of only twelve elected experts to the New York-based United Nations Committee monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW from 1992 to 2002.
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Rosario Manalo chaired the High-Level Task Force which drafted the new ASEAN charter that carried the Philippine-initiative creating a human rights body.
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At present, Rosario Manalo is the Special Representative of the Philippines to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.
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Rosario Manalo is the Dean of the HZB School of International Relations and Diplomacy in the Philippine Women's University.
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Rosario Manalo is a lecturer in the European Studies Program in the Ateneo de Manila University.
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Rosario Manalo was a lecturer in Miriam College and the University of Asia and the Pacific on Philippine Foreign Policy for the Master of Arts in Political Economy program, as well as Comparative European Political Economy.