Lifting the women who lift us: Accelerating action for Filipino women in all sectors

This International Women’s Day 2025, let us commit to accelerating action for gender equality—not just in words, but in concrete policies, programs, and actions. Together, we can ensure that every Filipino woman can live, work, and lead with dignity.

Because a better Philippines is only possible when we lift the women who build it.

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Committed to working with and among legislative bodies from the national down to the local level, Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development primarily works within the halls of Congress, devoted to developing policy champions and generating viable, responsive, and people-centered public policies on population and human development.

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Legislative Agenda

We work with policy makers and other stakeholders toward policy reform and decisive action for a truly inclusive, empowering, and sustainable development specifically on the issues of children's rights, women and girls' rights, tobacco control, rural development, renewable energy, and the rights of stateless persons.

Children's Rights

Promote children's rights as a top priority in legislation and ensure children are at the center of all laws.

Women and Girls' Rights

Promote adolescent reproductive health and ensure the elimination of violence against women and girls

Tobacco Control

Call on legislators to strengthen tobacco control laws that will prioritize public health and the protection of children and young people from the ills of tobacco.

Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Development

Advance the rights of farmers, fisherfolk, informal settlers, and workers in the informal economy towards gender equality, adequate housing, and environment and economic resilience.

Clean Air and Renewable Energy

Accelerate efforts to achieve better air quality and just energy transition for a cleaner, greener Philippines

Protection of People Forced to Flee and Stateless Persons

Call on legislators to strengthen legal frameworks to establish long term protection and durable solutions for refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, stateless applicants, populations at risk of statelessness, and internally displaced persons

Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development

Recent Updates

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Where There’s Smoke: 5 Ways the Tobacco Industry Exerts Undue Influence on Philippine Policy

July 10, 2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬. One of the main reasons? We are not holding public officials accountable for conflicts of interest when they have financial stakes in tobacco businesses. With support from Vital Strategies, the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development […]

Gov’t, advocates join forces to unmask youth-targeted tobacco and vape tactics: “Wag Magpaloko sa Vape at Sigarilyo!”

June 23, 2025

June 19, 2025 — As the school year nears and in line with the observance of National No Smoking Month this June, health and child rights advocates, together with the Department of Education (DepEd), are announcing a unified and strengthened campaign to protect Filipino children and youth from the manipulative tactics of the tobacco and […]

Statement of the Alliance of Local Legislators for Human Development (ALL4HD) in Commemorating the 2025 World No Tobacco Day

May 30, 2025

The Alliance of Local Legislators for Human Development, a progressive and non-partisan organization of local legislators nationwide promoting and advocating human development through legislation and good governance, joins the celebration of World No Tobacco Day 2025. With the theme “Unmasking the Appeal: Exposing Industry Tactics on Tobacco and Nicotine Products,” this year’s campaign aims to […]

Stances of 2025 senatorial candidates on key policy issues in tobacco control

May 9, 2025

Who can champion public health and youth protection through tobacco control in the Senate? See the stances of the 2025 senatorial candidates on key policy issues in tobacco control. On May 12, 2025, let us vote for candidates who will protect the health of the Filipinos, especially the children and youth. #VoteForTobaccoFreeGeneration #TobaccoFreeGeneration #iChange2025 #Election2025