Farmers are the frontliners in ensuring food security! Statement by APIT TAKO
3 April 2020 The enhanced community quarantine, imposed without first instituting proper mitigation measures, has further aggravated the misery of the Cordillera peasantry. In the temperate vegetable producing provinces of Benguet, Ifugao, and...
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We strongly condemn Philippine National Police Regional Director Brigadier General Rwin Pagkalinawan for echoing President Rodrigo Duterteβs highly deplorable and inhuman marching orders to shoot dead anyone "who creates trouble". Pagkalinawan...
On the Occasion of the 71st Adoption of the International Declaration of Human Rights
The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in every State. Democracy, good governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law are...
Statement of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera on the Tribute to Judge Anacleto Marero BaΓ±ez by People’s Organizations from the Ilocos and Cordillera regions
November 11, 2019, San Fernando, La Union The women and men of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera express our deepest respect to Judge Mario Anacleto Marero BaΓ±ez whom we strongly suspect to have been assassinated for standing by...
CDPC participates in a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop on the Apayao-Abulug River Basin
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) was invited by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to participate in a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop as part of a process of preparation for the Flood Risk...
CDPC Statement on the International Day of the Worldβs Indigenous Peoples
On this historic occasion, the silver jubilee of the declaration by the United Nations of August 9 as International Day of the Worldβs Indigenous Peoples, the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) would like to highlight the...
CDPC Statement: On the Attempted Extrajudicial Killing of IP Rights Advocate Brandon Lee
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera joins the outrage of the Ifugao and Cordillera people and advocates over the shooting attack against Brandon Lee on August 6, 2019 in Lagawe, Ifugao.Β Brandon survived the shooting.Β We pray...
Enhance traditional communal irrigation, no to CRPIP
4 July 2019 Enhance traditional communal irrigation, no to CRPIP The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) calls on the government to channel its resources and efforts towards rehabilitating and enhancing the age-old, traditional...
Milestones highlight CDPC general assembly
Milestones from the programs of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) were highlighted during itsΒ general assembly (GA) last June 29 in Baguio City. The results of the internal evaluation of the 2017-2018 multi-sectoral and...
Joanna CariΓ±o, First Filipino Awardee of the Prestigious Gwangju Human Rights AwardβSalute from CDPC!
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) salutes one of its pioneers, Joanna Patricia K. CariΓ±o for Β having been conferred the prestigious 2019 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights on May 18 in Gwangju South Korea. The Gwangju Prize...
Not all classes have four walls
"My mother is no longer going to buy DOLE or Del Monte pineapples." Lisa tells when we met again after our exposure program in the Philippines. Lisa is one of the twelve students who came to the Philippines for four weeks from 11 March to 8 April....
Urgent Appeal for Solidarity and Action
Stop the attacks against human rights defenders and development workers in the Philippines! Dear friends, We would like to seek your support to demand from the Duterte government to stop its terrorist-tagging of and smear campaigns against various...