The following individuals have been nominated as members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the term 2023-2025. The term begins on 1 January 2023 and concludes on December 31 2025.
According to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution 2000/22, the Permanent Forum consists of “…eight members to be nominated by Governments and elected by the Council, and eight members to be appointed by the President of the Council following formal consultation with the Bureau and the regional groups through their coordinators, on the basis of broad consultations with indigenous organizations, taking into account the diversity and geographical distribution of the indigenous people of the world as well as the principles of transparency, representativity and equal opportunity for all indigenous people, including internal processes, when appropriate, and local indigenous consultation processes…”
Member States’ list of candidates for election to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the term 2023-2025: Elections to subsidiary bodies of ECOSOC (including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues) took place on 13 April 2022, in accordance with the distribution of seats among the regional groups, with due regard for the distribution of Indigenous Peoples among the countries of each of the regional groups (See ECOSOC Decision 2016/205, Election 3).
More information on the results of the election are to be found here.
AFRICAN STATES (2 members to be elected)
- Mr. Vital Bambanze* (Burundi)
- Mr. Bornface Museke Mate* (Namibia)
ASIA-PACIFIC STATES (2 members to be elected)
- Mr. Ali Hajilari (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Ms. Nan Li (China)
EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES (1 member to be elected)
- Mr. Grigory E. Lukiyantsev* (Russian Federation)
- Mr. Suleiman Mamutov (Ukraine)
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STATES (1 member to be elected)
- Mr. Carlos Chex (Guatemala)
- Ms. Sara Edhith Omi Casama (Panama)
- Mr. Luis Alberto Pachala Poma (Ecuador) – Withdrawn
- Mr. Rodrigo Eduardo Paillalef Monnard (Chile)
WESTERN EUROPEAN AND OTHER STATES (2 members to be elected)
- Ms. Tove Søvndahl Gant* (Denmark)
- Mr. Keith Harper (USA)
* Nominated for re-election
Indigenous Peoples’ organizations-nominated for the term 2023-2025: The eighth member is nominated from one of the three regions with the largest indigenous population (Africa; Asia; and Central and South America and the Caribbean). This seat rotates among these three regions every three years. For the 2023–2025 term, there will be two members of the Permanent Forum from Asia, nominated by Indigenous Peoples’ organizations.
AFRICA
Nominated by Regional organization
- Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim*, (CHAD), Indigenous Peoples of Africa co-ordinating Committee – IPACC
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization/Others
- Mr. Adolph Bope Bope Kwete, (DRC), Indigenous Peoples Global Forum for Sustainable Development
- Mr. Eyo O. Mensah, (NIGER), Association for the Promotion of Efik Language, Literature and Culture -APELLAC
THE ARCTIC
Nominated by Regional organization
- Ms. Aluki Kotierk, (CANADA), Inuit Circumpolar Council -ICC and Saami Council -SC
ASIA (2 seats available for 2023-2025)
Nominated by Regional organization
- Ms. Naw Ei Ei Min, (MYANMAR), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact -AIPP
- Mr. Gam Shimray, (INDIA), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact -AIPP
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization /Others
- Mr. Nicolas Barla, (INDIA), Indigenous Peoples Forum -ODISHA
- Ms. Streamlet Dkhar, (INDIA), Indigenous Women India Network -IWIN
- Ms. Basavi Kiro, (INDIA), Indigenous Women India Network -IWIN
- Mr. Ganesh Manjhi, (INDIA), Raji Padha Sarna Prarthana Sabha Ranchi Mahanagar
- Ms. Meenakshi Munda, (INDIA), Jharkhand Indigenous and Tribal Peoples for Action
- Ms. Hanieh Moghani, (IRAN), Center for Sustainable Development -CENESTA
- Mr. Madan Mohan Soren, (INDIA), All Indian Santali Writers’ Association
- Mr. Kadey Soren, (INDIA), Kalinga Institute for Social Science Odisha, India
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Nominated by Regional organization
- Ms. Edith Bastidas Calderón, (COLOMBIA), The Network of Indigenous Women on Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean -RMIB-LAC
- Ms. Margarita Gutiérrez Romero, (MEXICO), The Continental Network of Indigenous Women -ECMIA.
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization/Others
- Mr. Dario Mejia Montalvo*, (COLOMBIA), Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia – ONIC
- Mr. Marcos Terena, (BRAZIL), Comité Intertribal Memoria y Ciencia Indígena.
- Mr. Cesar Sarasara, (PERU), Nación Awajun y Wampis, NAW-Peru.
EASTERN EUROPE, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, CENTRAL ASIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization /Others
- Mr. Eskender Bariiev, (UKRAINE), The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
- Mr. Dyukarev Grigory Ivanovich, (RUSSIAN FEDERATION), Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North -RAIPON
- Ms. Valentina Sovkina, (RUSSIAN FEDERATION), Aborigen Forum
- Mr. Aleksei Tsykarev*, (RUSSIAN FEDERATION), Association of Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian Federation
NORTH AMERICA
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization/Others
- Ms. Brenda Gunn, (CANADA), The Manitoba Métis Federation
- Ms. Angela R. Riley, (USA), Citizen Potawatomi Nation
- Mr. Geoffrey Roth *, (USA), National Indian Health Board
PACIFIC
Nominated by National/ Sub-national organization/Others
- Ms. Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, (GUAM), I Hagan Famalao’an Guahan, Incorporated from Guahan – IHFG
- Ms. Hannah McGlade*, (AUSTRALIA), Kimberley Land Coalition
- Ms. Aroha Te Pareake Mead, (NEW ZEALAND), National Iwi Chairs Forum
* Nominated for re-election