Directive Board

Executive president

Peru

She is a Quechua activist from Ayacucho. She has dedicated more than 30 years of her life to defending and seeking recognition for the cultures and indigenous peoples of Peru.

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Vice president

Kenya

he is a Masai woman who began her activism as a television journalist on issues related to the environment and development.

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Secretaria

Philippines

Vicky, as she is affectionately called, is a Kankanaey-Igorot woman from Besao, Monte Provincia. She was President of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2011).

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Treasurer

Australia

Wannyi / Kalkadoon woman, Law graduate and Human Rights teacher.

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She is an indigenous activist from the Cordillera with academic training in the social sciences and specializes in sociology and economics. For more than 20 years she has worked on indigenous issues from the grassroots to the international level.

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Member of the General Assembly

Greenland

She is an Inuit woman with a university degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). Her work and activism focus on promoting the rights of indigenous Inuit peoples, specifically on equal access to education.

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