The local government units of Borongan City and Municipality of Dolores have committed to promote renewable energy and create a more sustainable future for their communities.

Oxfam Pilipinas and its partner organizations call for the importance of addressing the inequalities faced by women and girls towards a just, inclusive, and sustainable future during its celebration of National Women’s Month at Eastwood City Mall in Quezon City.

Marking the national women’s month, the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality tackled on Wednesday Senate Bills that endeavors to strengthen a comprehensive policy in addressing adolescent pregnancy through social protection. 

The Joint Senate Committees on Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship tackled Senate Bills that seek to strengthen and promote social enterprises as a poverty reduction strategy. 

Civil society groups and lawmakers on Monday opened a trade fair at the House of Representatives featuring locally-made and socially responsible products to promote the Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Bill.

The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created globally since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report today. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.

The quiet town of Clarin, Misamis Occidental in Northern Mindanao is awakened by a group of women eagerly gathering in a small store.   They would often meet in the morning to talk about the situation of women in their area – from learning sessions on women’s empowerment to discussing reports of domestic abuse. Other times, […]

International humanitarian and development organization Oxfam Pilipinas and women’s rights organizations launched a photo exhibition to mark the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law or Republic Act 10354 in Quezon City on Friday. The photo exhibition, “RPRH Law: Isang Dekada Na,” which opened to the public from December 9 […]

For someone who is barely five feet, 17-year-old “Nana” walks tall and proud among volunteers in the small rural town of Ganassi in Lanao del Sur.   With a smile as bright as sunshine, Nana recalled how at 14, she was among Grade 8 students selected to be part of an advocacy training facilitated by the […]

Members of the ‘Girl Defenders’ alliance on Wednesday welcome the signing of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) No. 11596, also known as an “An Act Prohibiting the Practice of Child Marriage and Imposing Penalties for Violations Thereof.” The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development and the international humanitarian and […]