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Marla Darwin Cofounder, Grrrl Gang Manila
To tackle the rising pregnancy rates among Filipino teens, young women need places both online and in real life where they can discuss sex and their bodies without fear of judgment, says Marla Darwin, cofounder of Grrrl Gang Manila.
Following the Women & Girls expert forum on teen pregnancy in the Philippines, we round up the expert views on what’s driving the phenomenon, and how to lower the country’s sky-high rates of teenage mothers.
The Philippines is struggling to find solutions to its soaring teen pregnancy rates, and finding that addressing the problem requires interventions that go beyond contraception education and access.
In Qatar, like in most of the Middle East, “zina” laws ban unmarried couples from having sex. Rights advocates say those most likely to end up in jail for this transgression are low-skilled migrant women.
Forced to live with their employers and often subjected to emotional abuse or worse, foreign domestic workers in Singapore can feel trapped. But a nonprofit shelter is working to help these women escape their situations and find new work where they are treated with dignity.
Irene Santiago is a rights activist from the Philippines. She is organizing a series of peace talks hosted by women around the world, challenging the traditional notion that men should be at the head of negotiating tables.
At 51, Astrid Tuminez runs marathons and holds a senior government relations job at Microsoft in Singapore – but she grew up in a slum in the Philippines. Education transformed her life, but it was only through luck that she gained access to school.
Karen Koh
EngenderHealth’s Karen Koh writes about the problem of teenage pregnancy in the Philippines, four years after laws were passed giving access to universal family planning. The NGO runs a project in the Visayas region, funded by USAID.
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