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Oxfam Pilipinas staff joined the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and other organizations in a tree planting activity in Cotabato City last Thursday to commemorate World Humanitarian Day.

For over two years now, an evacuation center just a few meters from the national highway in South Upi, Maguindanao has become a regular refuge for indigenous peoples from the Teduray tribe. In July 2019, the more than 500 families from the tribe were uprooted from their farms in the mountainous...

For two straight years now, more than 500 Moro families from a village in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao have been spending Ramadan away from their homes. During prayer times at the mosque, the Imam or religious leader could barely be heard by those at the back due to the lack of a public address...

For Lilia Godoy, 63, Typhoon Rolly (international name: Goni) is not something she can easily forget. Her village of Carangcang was devastated by the typhoon although it did not experience flooding like most of their neighboring villages in Magarao.

In one town in Maguindanao, an indigenous tribe had to seek refuge in a makeshift evacuation camp due to land disputes. Like a number of evacuation sites in the province, the camp is unconnected to the power grid. The lack of electricity not only made it hard for the displaced residents to go about...

We are losing the race against time to fight climate change. This World Humanitarian Day, we want to take action on the climate emergency in solidarity with the people most vulnerable to disasters. We also want to raise the need to accelerate the transition to renewable and sustainable energy as...