Within countless households across the Philippines, domestic workers provide essential care work for other families so their own families may live. And yet, they are among the most vulnerable and underappreciated workers in the country.  Long hours, below-minimum wages, little to no social protection, and, in extreme cases, outright abuse characterize their experience.

Oxfam Pilipinas marked National Women’s Month on Monday with a call for urgent action to protect women’s rights, reproductive healthcare, and gender justice amid increasing local and global backlash against rights movements. Themed “Personal to Powerful: Our Power to Act,” the solidarity event brought together sexual health advocates, government agencies, and community leaders in Quezon […]

Last March 10, 2025, Oxfam Pilipinas brought together advocates, policymakers, and community leaders for a powerful discussion on gender justice, sexual and reproductive health, and women’s rights in the Philippines. The event, themed “Personal to Powerful: Our Power to Act,” highlighted the urgent need to protect bodily autonomy and push back against rising threats to […]

Civil society, government, and private sector representatives concluded a learning exchange focused on enhancing women’s economic empowerment in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) held February 18 to 19 in Davao City. Hosted by Oxfam and The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Bangsamoro Women Commission and supported by the Australian Government in […]

Oxfam Pilipinas and its partners are calling on the government to prioritize care work—both paid and unpaid—through concrete measures. These include reducing the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women and girls and ensuring that paid care workers receive fair wages, equitable benefits, and safe working environments.

Oxfam Pilipinas, together with the Office of Senator Risa Hontiveros, various civil society organizations, and child rights advocates, strongly supports the passage of the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Bill and the implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).

The award marks the third recognition given to Oxfam Pilipinas in 2024.

Melita Amando, a 51-year-old Barangay Health Worker (BHW) from Barangay Lamud, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur, shares the struggles of her life as a “bakwit.”

Bangkok, Thailand – The partners behind the WE CARE Ordinance of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar were honored as 2024 Asia-Pacific Care Champions by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and UN Women. The award recognizes “trailblazers who have made pioneering contributions to building inclusive and sustainable care systems” whose […]

Farhana Ganoy, a youth advocate from the Maguindanao Alliance of Youth Advocates, during an in-school awareness session on Child, Early, and Forced Marriage, Teenage Pregnancy, and R.A. 11596 (An Act Prohibiting Child Marriage and Imposing Penalties for Violations) as part of the “CabPapalisa” activity.