{"id":3197,"date":"2018-10-09T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2018-10-09T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T14:01:14","slug":"fimis-joan-carling-recieves-champions-of-the-earth-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2018\/10\/09\/fimis-joan-carling-recieves-champions-of-the-earth-award\/","title":{"rendered":"FIMI&#8217;s Joan Carling Receives Champions of the Earth Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26, 2018, Joan Carling, a member of the Board of Channel grantee the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/fimi\/\">International Indigenous Women\u2019s Forum<\/a> (or FIMI), has been awarded the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/joan-carling-winner-champions-earth-award-lifetime-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions of the Earth Award<\/a> for her lifetime achievements defending the environment and indigenous rights.<!--more--><!--noteaser-->On September 26, 2018, Joan Carling, a member of the Board of Channel grantee the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/fimi\/\">International Indigenous Women\u2019s Forum<\/a> (or FIMI), has been awarded the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/joan-carling-winner-champions-earth-award-lifetime-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions of the Earth Award<\/a> for her lifetime achievements defending the environment and indigenous rights. This award is the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.unep.org\/championsofearth\/outstanding-environmental-changemakers-receive-un\u2019s-champions-earth-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN&#8217;s highest environmental honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An Indigenous woman of the Kankanaey in the Philippines, she has been defending land rights at the grassroots and at international levels for more than twenty years. Carling has served twice as the Secretary General of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIIPP).\u00a0 Her main concerns have included protection of the land rights of Indigenous peoples, ensuring sustainable development of natural resources and upholding human rights of marginalized people. The UN has celebrated Carling with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cRFSyQV5hMc&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> highlighting her impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26, 2018, Joan Carling, a member of the Board of Channel grantee the International Indigenous Women\u2019s<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[140,123,13,122],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","tag-aiwrl","tag-asia","tag-fimi","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}