A SEASON FILLED WITH HOPE, CARE, AND REFLECTION

In the Philippines, Oxfam, together with our local partners, are providing immediate aid and support to the most affected communities in areas affected by Covid-19 in Eastern Samar, armed conflict in Mindanao, and the succession of destructive typhoons in October and November 2020 that battered Luzon Island.

Features

A farmer passes through a corn farm damaged by typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) in Cagayan. (Photo: Denvie Balidoy/Oxfam)

Urgency, Ambition, Justice: Three climate bottomlines for the Philippine NDC

It is unfortunate that we begin the New Year with the news that the Philippines failed to submit its Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“The strength of my resolve to champion the rights of young women and girls is far greater than any fear of challenging long-held cultural practices or beliefs. If we will not stand up for our human rights, who else will?”, said campaigner Sittie Mohamad of Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation, a women’s rights organization based in Lanao del Sur campaigning to end child marriage in the Philippines. (Photo was taken in March 2020, before the Covid-19 lockdown) Photo Credit: Vina Salazar/Oxfam

Girls Not Brides – weaving the ‘evidence quilt’ for gender transformative law reform

Girls have been given much reason to hope in the Philippines. This November, a historic first, the Senate unanimously approved the Girls Not Brides bill, which proposes to criminalize child marriage .

Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health care starts with robust data

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, women's choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care have been deprioritized and ignored.