Pavel Sulyandziga

Pavel Sulyandziga
Павел Суляндзига
Sulyandziga in 2011
Born
Pavel Vasilievich Sulyandziga

(1962-02-20) 20 February 1962
the village of Olon, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipRussian
Alma materKhabarovsk State Pedagogical University
OccupationIndigenous rights activist
AwardsCertificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation

Pavel Vasilievich Sulyandziga (Russian: Павел Васильевич Суляндзига born 20 February 1962 in Olon, Pozharsky District, Primorsky Kray) is a Russian indigenous rights activist of Udege ethnicity. He is a member of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, tasked with the dissemination of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a former member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

Until 2010, he was the first vice president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) and member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues