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Rohainie is a member of Linding Kokalombayan, a group of young women in Lanao Del Sur province and Marawi City campaigning against child, early and forced marriages in BARMM. (Photo: Ferdinandh Cabrera/Oxfam)

Youth group challenges practice of child marriage in Mindanao

Marriage between relatives is preferred since it is assumed that it helps tighten relationships among clans and that it can prevent feuds and misunderstandings between erstwhile warring clans, explained Roconsalam who is a leader of the Women’s Association on Turmeric Production.

Asliah Lomangco works on her sewing machine. She is part of the Creating Spaces Project which supports single mothers like Asliah who survived child, early and forced marriage. (Photo: Ferdinandh Cabrera/Oxfam)

Lanao Del Sur women campaigns to end child, early force marriage practices

In 2017, Asliah and her family lost almost everything in a huge fire that gutted their house and dozens others in Campo Ranao, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur.In 2017, Asliah and her family lost almost everything in a huge fire that gutted their house and dozens others in Campo Ranao, Marawi City, Lanao...

Public hearing on child, early, and forced marriage (Photo: Rina Fulo/Oxfam)

Ending child marriage is our shared responsibility

In January 2020, Oxfam joined the Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development Foundation, children’s networks, government agencies, and other development partners in this year’s first public hearing set by the Senate Committee on Women, Family Relations, and Gender Equality. We...

Tanumbay, 22, from Maguindanao got married at age 10 to a man 20 years older than her. ‘I didn’t want to marry, but I had no choice. It was my father’s wish before he died,’ she said. Tanumbay was 12 years old when she gave birth to her eldest son. Now, she has five children. Tanumbay never experienced going to school because of poverty. Photo: April Abello-Bulanadi/Oxfam

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

In the Philippines, poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women and girls is a grave public health challenge: one in five girls is a mother by age 19, two-thirds of women are not using any form of birth control, and more than a third of women’s pregnancies are unwanted.

‘Girl Defenders’ laud Senate declaration of child marriage as a public crime

In a historic and unanimous vote among Senators, Senate Bill 1373, also known as the ‘Girls Not Brides Act’ has passed the third and final reading on Monday, November 9.

Hundreds of 'Girl Defenders’ join online rally, call for laws to end child marriage in PH

In time for the International Day of the Girl Child and a few weeks before the close of the second regular session of 18th Congress, more than 200 ‘Girl Defenders' joined an online grand solidarity rally organized by Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) , with...