Advance List of Nominations to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2026-2028 Now Available

10 January 2025

Advance List of Nominations to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2026-2028 (As of 9 January 2025)

The following individuals have been nominated as members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the term 2026-2028. The term begins on 1 January 2026 and concludes on 31 December 2028. 

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…” 

The Advance List of Nominations for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2026-2028 can be accessed here.

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