Farmers battered by quarantine controls
by APIT TAKO The Cordillera continues to dominate the country’s production of temperate-clime vegetables, accounting for about 65% of national production. Around 300,000 people in the Cordillera region depend on the income derived from...
A tourist town in the time of Covid-19
By Kris Alya Tucked in the Cordillera mountains, Sagada is the so-called Shangri La of the North because of its breathtaking and extraordinary natural beauty. For several decades now, this town of Mountain Province in the Cordillera region has been...
Protecting the Last Line of Defense
by Community Health Education, Services, and Training in the Cordillera Region (CHESTCORE) The first coronavirus (Covid-19) case in the Philippines was recorded on January 30, 2020, and three days later the first death on February 2. On March 7,...
Statement by the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Marital Law
On the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines by then President Ferdinand Marcos, the women and men of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) joins the widespread call Never Again...
Statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 9, 2020 The women and men of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) join the rest of the indigenous peoples and their advocates worldwide in commemorating the 26th year of the International Day of the World's Indigenous...
Human Rights In The Philippines During COVID-19
Human Rights In The Philippines During COVID-19 Joanna K. Cariño 2019 Gwangju Human Rights Laureate April 30, 2020 Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations has said: The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency —...
CDPC participates at the 7th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) participated in the 7th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APSFD) under the coordination of the Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM). The APRCEM is a civil...
Ucab’s resilience: from open pit mining to Covid-19
“The mountains are still here, because of the people’s struggle.” This was the statement of an elder in Keystone, Ucab, Itogon, Benguet during the celebration of Cordillera Day on April 24, 2015. Ucab is a barangay (village)...
Relief Activity in Sitio Piripin Bato
Sitio Piripin Bato, a sitio of barangay Pico, La Trinidad, Benguet adjoining Baguio City, is one of the beneficiaries for food relief of the Serve The People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response (STPB-CDR). First organized during the onslaught of...
Solidarity Message for the 36th Cordillera Day From SOLIDAGRO
On the occasion of the 36th Cordillera Day celebration, organized as a one-week long online activity with the theme “Strengthen our unity and courageously defend our ancestral land and life! ", Solidagro expresses its solidarity with our local...
Cordillera Day 2020: A solidarity message from the Province of East Flanders (Belgium)
The People’s Cordillera Day is a day of international solidarity, a day of hope and belief in social justice, genuine development, peace, freedom and democracy. The current corona crisis calls upon us to turn this international...
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...