teenage pregnancy

Lily (not her real name), 15, holds her five-month old baby boy inside their home at Dela Paz, a small village in Misamis Occidental province. Over a 10-year period, 1.2 million girls in the Philippines, aged between 10 and 19, have had a child. That's a rate of 24 babies per hour. (Photo: Roy Lagarde/Oxfam Pilipinas)

Oxfam Pilipinas welcomes proposed national policy to address adolescent pregnancy

March 6, 2023

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 Pilipinas and the UP Center for Women's and Gender Studies, as part of the Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) Project funded by the Global Affairs Canada, launched the study “Saying Yes to Whose Pleasures?”. (Photo: Erielle Esturas/Oxfam Pilipinas)

Oxfam releases teenage pregnancy study showing importance of accepting pleasure, sexuality education among Filipinos

September 7, 2022

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 […]