Joanna Cariño

Joanna Patricia Kintanar Cariño is a Filipina human rights activist, educator, researcher, and co-founder of the Cordillera People's Alliance (CPA), SELDA Northern Luzon (Association of Ex Political Detainees against Detention and Arrest) and SANDUGO (Alliance and Movement of Bangsamoro and Indigenous Peoples and for Self-Determination).

Early life

Cariño was born May 2, 1951, in Baguio. She is the second eldest of the eight children of Josefina Kintanar Cariño and Atty. Jose Cortes Cariño Jr.

She attended Baguio Central School and Baguio City High School. In 1970, she left the University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB) and became an activist. Together with her younger sister Joji, she was illegally arrested, tortured and detained in Camp Olivas from 1974 to 1976. In 1978, she resumed her schooling at UPB, where she graduated with a degree in Anthropology and Economics. She later took up graduate studies at the same university but subsequently left to become a full-fledged human rights activist.

Human rights work

Cariño was co-founder of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance for the Defense of Ancestral Domain and Self Determination (also known as Cordillera People's Alliance) in 1984 and has worked with this organization ever since.

Awards and recognition

On May 18, 2019, the May 18 Memorial Foundation bestowed the Gwangju Prize for Human rights to Cariño for her activism and work against state violence. The Gwangju Prize for Human Rights is given to “individuals, groups or institutions in Korea and abroad that have contributed to promoting and advancing human rights, democracy and peace through their work."[1][2]

References
  1. Staff, Nordis (December 31, 2017). "Joanna Cariño, an Ibaloi activist".
  2. "Cordillera Peoples Alliance". cpaphils.org. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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