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CPA THROUGH THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE (A History of Campaigns)

Since it was established in June 1984, CPA has always been in the forefront of the Cordillera peoples' protests and struggles on major and continuing issues that affected the people of the region. Its history of struggle has spanned five Presidents, and is about to complete its 20th year. For a quick but comprehensive rundown of those 20 years, click here

Recent Statements and Releases

• Pablaak ti Itogon Inter-Barangay Alliance: Ilaban, Aywanan ken Salakniban ti Ili tayo nga Itogon!
• Pablaak ti Cordillera Peoples Alliance para iti Mines UNSafety Week
• IPRA and NCIP: 17 Years of Indigenous Peoples' Rights Violations
• On the Abduction and Enforced Disappearance of the 43 Students of Ayotzinapa School in Guerrero, Mexico
• SUMIKAD Cordi People's Protest Condemns IP Rights Violations, Militarization
• Umili ti Kordilyera, Ipinget ti Bukod a Pangngeddeng! Labanan ti Pasismo ti Estado! Patakyasen ni Aquino!
• Salvador Family Statement: Justice for Engr. Delle Salvador, Justice for Lacub
• Pablaak ti APIT TAKO: Oktubre, Bulan dagiti Pesante
• Cordillera Heroes: Remembering Ama Daniel Ngayaan (1922-1987)
• National Solidarity Mission (NSM) to Lacub, Abra: Initial Report
• Urgent Call for the Immediate Cessation of AFP Military Operations in Lacub, Abra
• President Aquino heckled by indigenous peoples in NY
• CPA Intervention at the UN WCIP Round Table 2: Implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples at the national and local level
• CPA Intervention at UN WCIP Round Table 3: Indigenous Peoples’ Lands, Territories and Resources
• CPA co-organizes series of activities during UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and UN Climate Summit
• CPA calls for immediate pull out of AFP troops in Abra at the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
• CDPC-DEFEND! Statement: Justice for Engr. Fidela Salvador
• CORDIS Statement: Engr. Fidela B. Salvador: Wife, Mother and Engineer of the People
• CPA-CHRA Statement: Justice for Engr. Delle Salvador! Hold the 41st Infantry Battalion Accountable!
• Cordillera Peoples Alliance: Condemn the Massacre of the Ligiw family by the 41st IB!
• Cordillera Human Rights Alliance: Ensure Justice for the Ligiw Family!
• Cordillera Human Rights Alliance: Urgent Action Alert for the Ligiw Family
• Cordillera Human Rights Alliance:Justice for William Bugatti!
• International Coalition on Human Rights in the Philippines: Open Letter to Pres. Aquino
• Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights in the Philippines: Open Letter to Pres. Aquino
• An Open Letter to Pres. Aquino
• Cordillera Human Rights Alliance: 2013 Human Rights Situation in the Cordillera
• Declaration of the People's Global Camp: Development Justice Now! Junk the WTO!
• DECLARATION on Indigenous Peoples and the World Trade Organisation: Resisting Globalisation, Asserting Self Determination
• CPA-IPMSDL Statement: Assert our Right to Self Determined Sustainable Development! Junk the World Trade Organisation!
• Open Letter from the Balao Family
• CHRA Statement: We Continue to Search for James Balao and For Justice
• CPA Statement: Abolish the Pork Barrel System! End Bureaucratic Corruption!
• CPA Statement: Stop the Bombings and Militarization in Mountain Province!
• CPA Statement: Stop the Plunder of the Nation's Coffers! Abolish the Pork Barrel System!
• Indigenous Peoples Agenda 2013
• South Ocean Mining Company: Manang-allilaw ken Addaan iti Narugit a Rekord iti Panagminas
• CPA Statement: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
• World IP Day Press Release: Philippine IPs Update IP Agenda to Aquino Government
• World IP Day Press Release: Indigenous Peoples Left Out in Government's Peace and Development Agenda
• Statement from Save Mankayan Movement and CPA-Benguet on the Mankayan FPIC Process
• CPA Statement: More consultations should take place in Mankayan and all affected communities
• CHRA: Midyear Report On the Cordillera Human Righs Situation
• CPA Statement on President Aquino's Fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA)
• IPMSDL Participates in Alta Conference 2013
• CPA Statement of Solidarity to the Communities Affected by the Singda Dam Area Expansion in Manipur
• URGENT ALERT: Vilification of Human Rights and Development Workers in the Cordillera
• 503rd Infantry Brigade Violates People's Rights in Abra
• CHRA: Stop the Bombings in Malibcong, Abra
• Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) Update on the Surface James Balao Campaign
• Breakthrough Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Aid and Development Effectiveness
• CPA and KAMP Intervention on Agenda Item 7:Human Rights (a) On the Implementation of the UNDRIP
• Announcement: Indigenous Peoples' Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness
• Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness
• CPA to Supreme Court: Declare the Mining Act of 1995 Unconstitutional
• Position Paper of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance on the Philex Mine Spill
• On the Resumption of the Philex Padcal Operations
• CPA Letter to Senator Osmeña Requesting for a Senate Investigation on the Philex Tailings Pond 3 Failure
• Kicking off 2013 with Victory: On the Pullout of Mining Equipment in MadaymenCHRA Statement: Commemorating Repression and Resistance
• CPA: Decommission Philex TP3 and Justly Compensate, Rehabilitate Affected Communities
• Message of Support and Solidarity from Hon. Jeremy Bueno III of Santa, Ilocos Sur to the People of Mankayan on their Struggle for Land and Life
• Results of the Philex Independent Investigation
• Remembering Ama Daniel Ngayaan (1922-1987)
• A Challenge to Baguio Officials: Listen to Sting!
• 86th Infantry Battalion Targets Human Rights and Development Workers
• Statement on the Occasion of Mines UNSafety Week 2012: Resist Unsafe and Destructive Mining! Defend Land, Life and Livelihood!
• DEFEND ILOCOS Statement on World Fisheries Day: Protect Coastal Areas and Fishing Grounds from Destructive Mining
• DEFEND ILOCOS Statement: Mines and Geosciences Bureau should walk the talk on blacksand mining in Ilocos
• CDPC Statement: Condemn and Expose the Political Persecution of Community Folk and Development Workers by the 86th Infantry Battalion in Tinoc, Ifugao!
• CHRA Urgent Alert: Pull out the 86th Infantry Battalion in Tinoc, Ifugao!
• KATRIBU Indigenous Peoples Partylist Statement on International Human Rights Day
• CHRA Statement on International Human Rights Day
• CPA and BAMPIS Statement: Mankayan Communities Steadfast Inspite of Rights Violations
• CPA, Amianan Salakniban call for Independent Environmental Investigatory Mission on Philex's Tailings Pond Collapse
• CPA, STARM and University of Northern Philippines Ink Partnership to Save the Abra River
• Tribute to Atty. Federico Bunao (April 18 1947 to August 4, 2012
• Open Letter to President Aquino, From Dr. Chandu Claver
• Letter from the Family of James Balao
• CHESTCORE Statement on the Privatization of Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center
• CPA Statement: PNOy's Third SONA is a Far Cry From Reality
• CPA Statement: Unmask and Resist the Deception of the Aquino II Regime
• CPA Statement: On the People's Cordillera Day and Genuine Regional Autonomy
• CHESTCORE Denounces CHR-CAR for the Termination of Cases of Human Rights Violations
• AMIANAN SALAKNIBAN Statement: EO 79 Worsens Mining Plunder and Human Rights Violations
• CPA Statement on President Aquino's Mining Executive Order
• Indigenous Peoples Left Out in the Cold at Rio+20: The Declaration of Kari-Oca is by Far the Strongest, Clearest and Most Porpuseful Statement Made at the UN Conference
• Cordillera Peoples Alliance, World's IPs, adopt Kari-Oca II Declaration in Brazil
• Kari-Oca II Declaration: Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth
• CPA at Kari-Oca II: Cordillera Indigenous Leader Tackles IPs' Self Determination and Critique of Green Economy at World IP Conference, Brazil
• [Cordillera Peoples Alliance-Kalinga--Timpuyog Dagiti Mannalon ti Kalinga--KATRIBU] INNEM A TAWEN A KINAAWAN HUSTISYA
• [BAMPIS Mining Watch-Save Mankayan Movement-Cordillera Peoples Alliance] Save Mankayan! Stop Lepanto Operations and Pullout GoldFields in Tabeo!
• [CPA Statement] After Corona: GMA Accountability Must Be Pursued
• [UNPFII Eleventh Session] CPA Intervention on Agenda Item 4: Human Rights: (a) Implementation of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples Rights, (b) Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• [UNPFII Eleventh Session] Asia Caucus Intervention on Agenda Item 4: Human Rights
• [UNPFII Eleventh Session] CPA Intervention on Agenda Item 3: "Doctrine of Discovery: Its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests"
• Cordillera Peoples Alliance-Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera Position Paper on REDD+: Presented during the Color it REDD-Plus Philippine Roadshow on REDD+ and the PNRPS
• CPA Presentation to IGO 2012: Perspective on Cordillera Development and Regional Autonomy by Benedict Solang
• CPA Statement: Stop Large Mining and Pullout Military Troops in IP Communities!
• CPA Participates in 9th Igorot International Consultation
• Cordillera Elders Alliance (CEA) Holds Second Regional Congress
• CPA Statement on the Third Attempt at Regional Autonomy
• CPA Organizes Cordillera Day 2012 (28th Cordillera Day)
• CPA Statement: An Appeal and a Challenge to Class Bagwis 2012 of the Philippine Military Academy
• Statement of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) to Class Bagwis 2012 of the Philippine Military Academy
• Statement of Anakbayan Kalinga on the Tuition Fee Increase at the Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC)
• Statement of CWEARC on its 25th Anniversary
• Statement of the Tongtongan ti Umili-Cordillera Peoples Alliance on the Expansion of Shoe Mart Development Corporation (SMDC) in Baguio City
• CPA Statement on PNoy's Second State of the Nation Address
• CPA Statement on PNoy's First Year of Presidency: Cordillera Indigenous Peoples not Better Off
• CPA Response to Cong. Teddy B. Baguilat's Privilege Speech
• Aquino's First 100 Days and the Road to Peril