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Farhana Ganoy, a MAYA youth leader, teaches young people in her community about the impacts of child, early, and forced marriage in Guindulungan, Maguindanao. (Photo: Princess Taroza/Oxfam)

Oxfam welcomes HOR’s 2nd reading approval of bill banning child marriage in PH

International humanitarian and development organization Oxfam on Tuesday lauded the House of Representatives for approving on 2nd reading House Bill 9943, which seeks to end child marriage in the country.

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.

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...

Girl Defenders (Photo: Linding Ko Kalombayan/AMDF)

‘Girl defenders’ call for urgent passage of house bill ending child marriage in the Philippines

In celebration of Women’s Month, women’s and children’s rights activists, dubbed ‘girl defenders’ across the Philippines called on the House of Representatives to immediately pass the bill prohibiting and declaring child marriage as illegal.

“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 .