CDRC shares farmers’ plight in Drought Forum

On June 13, AMIHAN National Federation of Peasant Women, Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives (CCNCI), Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP), and Citizens’ Disaster Response Center Foundation, Inc. (CDRC) conducted a forum entitled: Tigang na Bukid – Dalitang Buhay: Sigaw Para sa Nararapat na Ayuda sa Gitna ng Pagbabago ng Klima at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)...

CDRC attends ceremonial signing of RA 11188 Implementing Rules and Regulations

4 June 2019 – CDRC celebrates with child advocates the approval of #RA 11188 (Act Providing for the Special Protection for Children in Situations of Armed Conflict and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof) thru a ceremonial signing of its IRR at the Novotel Manila Araneta Center today. Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), in partnership with the UNICEF Philippines...

Voices from a Parched Land

By: Leyte Center for Development, Inc. (#LCDe) 22 May 2019 San Isidro is a fourth class municipality in Leyte, some 105 kilometers northwest of Tacloban City. Majority of the more than 31,000 people here derive their income from farming and fishing. Life is difficult for most of the population who are tenant farmers and fisher folks. As if this was...