Dalee Sambo Dorough presents the Keynote address at The UN Declaration and Sustainable Development: Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and Ecological Knowledge expert symposium. The presentation is entitled Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Development, and the need for a new trajectory.
Dalee Sambo Dorough (Inuit-Alaska) is International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and former Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Engaged for over 35 years at the UN, ILO, OAS, and other international fora, she is a former Expert Member and Chairperson of the UNPFII and specializes in international Indigenous human rights law as well as political and legal relations between States and Indigenous peoples. She holds a PhD from University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law (2002) and a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University (1991). She is also former co-Chair of the International Law Association Committee on Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and 2022 International Arctic Science Committee Medalist.
