Land is Life congratulates the Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera region, Philippines and the Cordillera Peoples Alliance for a successful 41st People’s Cordillera Day celebration. This year, the Cordillera Day activities were held from 13-27 April 2025 in 3 cities in the Philippines and in Hong Kong and Hawaii, with the participation of a total of 3,000 Indigenous Peoples and advocates. We believe this is a testament to a strengthened unity and solidarity of Cordillera Indigenous Peoples in their struggle for land and life.
Amidst the relentless state attacks against the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and communities of Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera, the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples have once again demonstrated that no amount of political repression can stop Indigenous Peoples from defending their ancestral lands, natural resources and human rights.
Over the past few years, Land is Life stood with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and Indigenous Peoples’ communities in the Cordillera region as they faced relentless attacks to their human rights along with the intrusion of corporate mining and energy projects in their territories.
As part of our continued support and solidarity with the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples, Land is Life co-sponsored the Cordillera Summit on Just Energy Transition and Indigenous Peoples Rights which was held from April 24-26 in Baguio City. The summit was among the highlights of this year’s People’s Cordillera Day celebration. Attended by more than 800 Indigenous Peoples and advocates, the summit reinvigorated the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples’ struggle against destructive projects and related human rights violations. The summit came out with a strong Unity Declaration for the protection of the environment, defense of ancestral land, and assertion of Indigenous People’s rights.
We continue to draw inspiration from the resilience of the Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera and other Indigenous Peoples all over the world as we advance our work for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and welfare.
We stand firmly with the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples as they assert their rights to land and self-governance.
