We collaborate with stakeholders including women’s rights organizations and lawmakers, to advocate for an end to decades of conflict in Mindanao. We focus on supporting women so that they could fully participate in the peace process and become leaders who would be able shape more inclusive gender norms, laws and policies.
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Noraida Abo With or without emergencies, Noraida Abo seldom stays at the office of the United Youth of the Philippines-Women (UnYPhil-Women), a local women’s rights organization she currently heads in the southern region of the Philippines. Her organization is also providing life-saving aid such as cash-for-food, water, sanitation […]
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Blog by Christelle Delvo, Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services Inc. (IDEALS Inc.) For 10 years, Sowaib Umambao, 44, and his wife ran the eatery in the transport terminal in barangay Lilod Madaya in Marawi City where they alternated in grocery, cooking and cashier duties to […]
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Ahmed* is seven. His father Zaldy* said the boy is fond of lamps that each night in their house in barangay Lilod, Marawi City, Ahmed always wanted the LED lights turned off so he can have the soft glow of the lamp when he does his homework or […]
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Kalilintad, kapamagogopa, katahimikan, peace. When internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Marawi City examined their notions of peace, they had many words for it, but seeing that they are in evacuation centers instead of their home city gave away the truth that peace is elusive in Mindanao. Around 27,000 IDPs in […]
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas Blog contribution by Christelle Delvo, Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services, Inc. (IDEALS, Inc.) Bairona Langco, a 44-year-old mother of five, was born in Marawi City and has lived there her whole life. The longest time she’s been away was spent the past three months at […]
Armed clashes continue to ravage Marawi City on day 18 of the harrowing crisis, but just 18 kilometers away, women brave many challenges as they lead the delivery of life-saving aid to some of the 220,000 civilians affected by the conflict. “During conflict, the population of women in evacuation centers is bigger than men. Women […]
Some 224,000 people have been displaced or are at risk of being displaced from their homes due to ongoing conflict and natural hazards in parts of Mindanao, data from the UNHCR-led Mindanao Protection Cluster as of January 2017 showed. In recent months, ongoing military offensives against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Maute […]