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Democracy has deep roots in the Philippines, yet its authority continues to be tested. Years of dictatorship, graft in high places, and the corruption of the electoral process by “goons, guns, and gold” have left many Filipinos cynical not only about democracy but about government itself-all the more so because government seems repeatedly to fall short of its promises and goals.

Haydee Yorac - Lawyer - Public Servant

In such a climate, serving in government can be thankless. Yet, HAYDEE YORAC, a lawyer and professor of law, has repeatedly answered the call to serve. In doing so, she has confounded the cynics and shown that even the most intractable problems can yield to solutions if they are attacked honestly and with vigor. 

HAYDEE YORAC hails from a small Visayan town where her father was mayor and her mother taught school.

She moved on to the University of the Philippines and its College of Law and passed the bar in 1963. As a young law instructor at her alma mater, she became politica Haydee B. Yorac - PeaceWomen Across the Globe WIC