Chandra Roy-Henriksen
Rajkumari Chandra Kalindi Roy-Henriksen (Bengali: চন্দ্র রায় হেনরিকসন), also known as Chandra Roy, is a Bangladeshi international advocate on the rights of indigenous peoples and Chief of the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.[1][2] She is a member of the Chakma Royal Family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Roy is married to leadingNorwegian Sami lawyer John Bernard Henriksen. She is the elder sister of Debashish Roy, the current titular Chakma Raja.
Early life and career[edit]
Born in Rangamati in 1956 as Chandra Kalindi Desiree Roy, she is the first child of the fiftieth Chakma Raja Tridev Roy and his first wife Rani Arati Roy. She attended missionary schools in Chittagong and studied law at the Punjab University in Lahore and the American University in Washington DC. Following the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Roy and much of her family chose to remain in independent Bangladesh after her father abdicated the Chakma throne and left for self-imposed exile in Pakistan.
After working with several law firms in the United States, Roy joined the United Nations and served in the International Labour Organization in Geneva for many years. Having left the ILO in 2000, she became a consultant and researcher on the rights of indigenous people worldwide. She authored several publications on the plight of indigenous minorities, including in her native Bangladesh.
UN advocate[edit]
In 2010, Roy was appointed as the head of the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at UN headquarters in New York.
Works[edit]
- Land rights of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 2000. Search this book on
[3] - Chandra Roy And Mike Kaye (2002). The International Labour Organization: A handbook for minorities and indigenous peoples (PDF). Minority Rights Group International and Anti-Slavery International. Retrieved 9 June 2014. Search this book on
- Roy, Chandra; Tauli-Corpuz, V.; Medina, A.R.; Research, I.P.I.C.f.P.; Education (2004). Beyond the silencing of the guns. Tebtebba, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education. ISBN 9789719284659.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
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