Pavel Sulyandziga
Pavel Sulyandziga | |
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Павел Суляндзига | |
Sulyandziga in 2011 | |
| Born | Pavel Vasilievich Sulyandziga 20 February 1962 the village of Olon, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Alma mater | Khabarovsk State Pedagogical University |
| Occupation | Indigenous rights activist |
| Awards | Certificate 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