Joan Carling is an indigenous activist from the Cordillera, Philippines. She has been working on indigenous issues at the grassroots to international levels for more than 20 years.
Peter has had a working life spanning the public, voluntary and private sectors, and in politics. He was first elected as a local Councillor where he held a number of senior positi…
Silas Siakor is a Liberian environmental and human rights activist who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his work gathering evidence that proved that Liberia’…
Miriam Miranda has dedicated her life to defending the cultural and land rights of the Garífuna people in Honduras . She is the leader of the Black Fraternal Organization of Hondu…
Janene Yazzie (Dine) is a community activist from the United States and co-founder and CEO of Sixth World Solutions which works with Dine’ (Navajo) communities to develop projects,…
Vanessa Teteye is a Bora – Uitoto indigenous woman from the Colombian Amazon. She works as a journalist and Communications Coordinator at the independent intercultural media in Lat…
Fadzai Chatiza-Traquino is a lawyer with a Masters in Women’s Law the University of Zimbabwe. She is Director at Women and Law in Southern Africa in Zimbabwe and is also coordina…
Aristide Chacgom is a lawyer based in Cameroon. For more than 5 years he has been coordinating Green Development Advocates (GDA), a Cameroonian civil society organization. His inte…
Archana Soreng belongs to the Khadia Tribe from Odisha, India. She is one of the seven members of the United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Adivsory Group on Climate Chang…
Vincent is a Geneva based human rights advocate from France with over fifteen years of experience in the area of international human rights protection, primarily through UN mechani…
