gender justice

Youth counter the trend of teenage pregnancy

Christine, Dianne, and Anna have been friends long before they learned how to read and write. From varying school crushes that were often the center of their conversations, the three girls now share a different experience— motherhood. At 15, Christine Dela Cruz spends her morning looking after her...

Changing the untold narrative of child brides

1 in 7 Filipino girls are married before reaching 18 years old, the age of consent set by Philippine laws Imagine a 10-year-old girl marrying a man who is 20 years older than her. Because of this, the girl was never able to go to school. Two years later, the girl gives birth to her first child. By...

Teachers from different schools in Samar province fill out evaluation sheets during a training program on sexual, reproductive health, and rights’ (SRHR) that was conducted by Oxfam Philippines and the Family Planning Organization in the Philippines (FPOP) in Calbayog City in April. (Photo: Mark Saludes/Oxfam)

Gender and sexual rights remain untold in Philippines’ poor communities

Teenage is the common age to become a parent in a poor village in Sta. Margarita Town in Samar province where teaches.

Philippine gender rights advocates take on a disease deadlier than HIV and COVID-19

There were no mourners when they buried her. There were no flowers and there was no coffin, only a black body bag. Patricia died just exactly how she lived – abandoned.

Oxfam lauds House committee’s move to approve in principle bill ending child marriage

International humanitarian and development organization Oxfam on Wednesday welcomed the House of Representatives Committee on Women and Gender Equality’s (CWGE) decision to approve in principle a proposed bill seeking to end child marriage in the country.

Oxfam Pilipinas Brochure 2021

Oxfam Pilipinas: Who We Are We at Oxfam Pilipinas are dreaming and working for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty. Our dream is for a country that is resilient, where gender justice and active citizenship thrive. For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now...

VP Leni leads Oxfam, PCW, UN Women’s virtual march to drumbeat upcoming Women’s Month

Vice President Leni Robredo together with other women leaders and women’s rights advocates kicked off the International Women’s Day celebration ahead of March 8 with a virtual march spotlighting the role of women at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elizabeth Asanion, 45, wears her protective goggles during a relief operation conducted by Community Organizers Multiversity, with support from Oxfam Philippines, titled Care4Wife: COVID-19 Assistance and Response to Emergency Needs for Women in Informal Economy in Namapa Compound, Barangay North Fairview in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. 9 June 2020. (Original photo by Basilio Sepe, illustrated by Vina Salazar)

Safety in Solidarity: How Understanding the Gendered Needs of Communities Means Safety for All

In this briefing note, Nastasia L. Tysmans highlights four key insights from the report which ought to urge us even more to integrate practices of solidarity into ongoing efforts to respond to COVID-19.

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.

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.

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