ADVERTISEMENTHer UN award was additional evidence that Carling was a “bonafide IP activist, and not a terrorist,” said her lawyer, Francesca Claver. “I did not tell my classmates I come from the Kankana-eys of Mountain Province because of the negative perception about indigenous peoples at the time,” she said. The Kankana-ey clans joined Kalinga communities that opposed the Chico River Dam project being pushed by then President Ferdinand Marcos in the late 1970s and ’80s. “What I learned from our indigenous communities is this: When we destroy our lands, we destroy ourselves. The DOJ list also included Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 29, 2018 21:45 UTC