News
- Details
A new international competence-building program for indigenous reindeer herding youth at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) in Norway is now supported with ca USD 2 million from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank/ Global Environmental Facility (GEF).
- Details
The Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat (IPS) is looking for an intern interested in learning the aspects of working in an international environment. The duration of the paid internship is 10-12 months full-time.
- Details
Abstract submissions is welcomed for the accepted open sessions to be held during the UArctic Congress on October 4 – 7, 2022. The deadline for abstract proposals is February 15, 2022.
- Details
Text and source: Nordnorsk debatt. Samarbeidet i Arktisk råd er eksepsjonelt i internasjonal sammenheng. I en tid hvor manglende samarbeid og tillit mellom land truer freden omkring Ukraina og andre steder, vil en tildeling av Nobels fredspris til Arktisk råd understreke hva verden trenger mer av.
- Details
25 лет назад, 2 марта 1997 года, в городе Надыме Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа состоялся первый Всемирный конгресс оленеводов. Оленевод саами из города Каутокейно Норвегии, Йохан Матис Тури, был избран первым президентом Ассоциации «Оленеводы Мира» и много лет проработал на благо Ассоциации.
- Details
March 2nd 1997 in Nadym Yamal Nenets AO in Russia - 25 years ago - the first Congress of Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH) was hold, and Saami reindeer herder Johan Mathis Turi was elected as WRHs first president and for many years contributed into the work of the Association, making cooperation between reindeer herding peoples
- Details
Check out "Our Arctic Presence", a podcast series created by Indigenous Youth from throughout the circumpolar north in celebration of 25 years of the Arctic Council.
- Details
Our team wishes all of you a very Happy New Year! We start 2022 news on our portal with the message that was send by Norway's King Harald V on December 31, 2021, where he also noted the importance of indigenous knowldge and interaction with nature. "Large societies and indigenous peoples around the world benefit from listening to each other and working together to safeguard what must be a common goal: To manage the earth's resources in a way that allows the generations after us to live good lives" - says the King of Norway
- Details
On December 16, the Virtual Training Program on Cultural Documentation and Intellectual Property Management for Indigenous Peoples from the Arctic Region, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ended.
