Permanent forum on indigenous affairs

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Organization type	Advisory body of the ECOSOC
Abbreviation	UNPFII
management	Anne Nuorgam since 2019 Finland
status	active
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Geneva Switzerland
Upper organization	ECOSOC
PFII on www.un.org

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ( English Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ) is an institution of the UN Economic and Social Council of the United Nations . It was established on the basis of resolution E / 2000 / INF / 2 / ADD.2 of the UN General Assembly and advises the Economic and Social Council on affairs of indigenous peoples . It is composed equally of eight government representatives and eight representatives of indigenous peoples selected according to regional proportions.

Originally the body was supposed to be called the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples , but this failed because of the dispute over the little 's' .

Members

The following are the members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs 2020/2022.

Representatives of the indigenous peoples	Government representatives
Anne Nuorgam	Vital Bambanze
Phoolman Chaudhary	Xiaoan Zhang
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim	Tove Søvndahl Gant
Hannah McGlade	Lourdes Tibán Guala
Darío José Mejía Montalvo	Grigory Evguenievich Lukiyantsev
Simón Freddy Condo Riveros	Bornface Museke Mate
Geoffrey Roth	Irma Pineda Santiago
Aleksei Tsykarev	Sven-Erik Soosaar

See also

• Working group on indigenous peoples
• Special Rapporteur on the State of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples
• J. Wilton Littlechild

Web links

• Official website of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2/newmembers.html, accessed on June 6, 2020