Author: IPRI

SECRETARY KENYA Naomi is a Maasai from the Kajiado District of Kenya. She speaks Maa (Maasai language), Kiswahili, and with reading knowledge in French. She attended the University of Nairobi with a degree in B. Ed. Education, major..

TREASURER COLOMBIA Leonor is an indigenous activist from Arhuaco Organization in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, del Cesar, Colombia. She is the Human Rights Commissioner of the Tayrona Indigenous Confederation (Confederacion Indigena Tayrona) and representative of the National..

VICE CHAIRPERSON SWEDEN  Lars is a Saami and reindeer herder from Sweden. He served as the president of the Saami Parliament in Sweden in 2001 and chairperson of the Union of the Swedish Saami (Svenska Samernas Riksforund, SSR)..

 RUSSIA Pavel Sulyandziga (Russian: Павел Васильевич Суляндзига) is Russian indigenous peoples rights activist of Udege nationality. He was a teacher of mathematics at the Math and Physics Department of the Khabarovsk State Pedagogical Institute in Khabarovsk City and..

PHILIPPINES Wilfredo is a Kankana-ey Igorot and Ilocano with roots from Sabangan, Mountain Province and Tayug, Pangasinan, Philippines. He is a professor of Mathematics at the University of the Philippines in Baguio City (UP Baguio). His education and..

INDONESIA Rukka, a Torajan from the highlands of Sulawesi, is the first female Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the world’s largest Indigenous Peoples organization at the national level. She is known for..

CHAIRPERSON  AUSTRALIA Sandra is a Waanyi/Kalkadoon Indigenous woman from Australia. She is the CEO of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance, Lawyer and Adjunct Professor in Public Health at the University of Queensland. She was..

 PHILIPPINES Vicky is an indigenous activist from the Kankana-ey Igorot people of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. She is a social development consultant, civic leader, human rights expert, public servant, and an advocate of women’s rights. As..

PHILIPPINES Joan is an indigenous activist from the Cordillera with more than 20 years of working on indigenous issues from the grassroots to the international level. Her expertise includes areas like human rights, sustainable development, the environment, climate..