Joan Carling

In September 2018 she received the Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Nations Environment Programme in recognition of her work as an environmentalist and a defender of human rights.

[1] While still at college, in 1984 she was struck by the murder of Macli-ing Dulag who had been campaigning against the Chico River Dam Project in order to safeguard the native Kalinga people.

She has written and edited publications on human rights, climate change, forest conservation, sustainable development and indigenous women.

[8] In September 2018 she received the Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Nations Environment Programme in recognition of her work as an environmentalist and a defender of human rights.

[9] Carling was one of the Filipino women prominently featured in a tribute to female game changers at Irish rock band U2's 2019 Joshua Tree Tour during its Manila leg.