sexual and reproductive health and rights
Statement: Tugon sa krisis ng tumataas na HIV cases: Dapat CSE para kontra HIV
Oxfam Pilipinas believes that the Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE is a crucial and long-term solution that can help address the alarming rise of HIV cases in the Philippines.
Don’t surrender to anti-rights movements — Oxfam Pilipinas, partners
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 […]
Our Power To Act – Oxfam Pilipinas National Women’s Month Celebration
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 […]
Statement: The Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Bill and science-based Comprehensive Sexuality Education will empower Filipino youth
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).
Oxfam Pilipinas, partners laud the House approval of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Bill
Oxfam Pilipinas and its partners commend the approval of the bill to prevent unintended pregnancies among young Filipinos and promote their adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Oxfam Pilipinas welcomes proposed national policy to address adolescent pregnancy
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.
Oxfam releases teenage pregnancy study showing importance of accepting pleasure, sexuality education among Filipinos
Oxfam Pilipinas on Tuesday released the findings of its study on teenage pregnancy, which shows the need for Filipino society to accept the reality and the power of teen pleasure and sexuality. The findings of the qualitative study “Saying Yes to Whose Pleasures? A Feminist Study on the Acceptability of Pregnancies for Young Women” were […]
As teen pregnancies in the Philippines soar, young mums struggle to cope with their ‘blessings from God’ amid the pandemic
This article was originally written by Geela Garcia for South China Morning Post last February 14, 2022 as part of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Journalism Story Grant on Inequality: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3166722/teen-pregnancies-philippines-soar-young-mums-struggle Erlyn, 18, stopped going to school after the death of her asthmatic brother in 2019. Her friend Daisy, now 16, lost her mother in 2017, the cause of death […]