Inuit Circumpolar Council

The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC ) is a multinational non-governmental organization representing the 150,000 Inuit in the United States, Canada, Greenland and Russia. The organization met in 1977 as the Inuit Circumpolar Conference for the first time and since then leads every four years by the General Assembly. The ICC is one of the six indigenous organizations, which hold the status of a permanent observer in the Arctic Council.

The field in which the organization operates, including the following Arctic population groups and regions:

  • Russia: Siberian Yupik ( Chukotka )
  • United States: Inupiat and Yupik (Alaska)
  • Canada: Nunavut, Inuvialuit ( Northwest Territories ), Nunavik (Quebec ), and Nunatsiavut ( Newfoundland and Labrador )
  • Greenland Kalaallit

Structure and functions

The main objectives of the organization are to strengthen ties among the Inuit, to promote their rights and interests and contribute to the development of the culture of the Inuit.

Structurally, the organization which consists of four separate offices in each of the four nation states constructed differently depending on national regulations. The presidents of Russia ICC, ICC Alaska, Canada ICC and ICC Greenland, together with a selected member from each nation's eight-member ICC Executive Council. The Executive Council sitting in front of an international Chair ( formerly International President).

The ICC holds every four years in the General Assembly from which Inuit brings together from all over the Arctic, to discuss issues of international importance for their communities, set out the direction for the organization's work over the next four years and the responsibility for thematic areas between the divide national stores. The Assembly shall appoint a chairman from each of the host country of the General Assembly, and the members of the Executive Council, and develops strategies and solutions for the coming period.

In 1996 the organization of the natural and environmental price of the Nordic Council. 2006 decided the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to the General Assembly in Barrow, to rename itself Inuit Circumpolar Council, as the existing name sounds more like a one-time meeting. The 2010 Annual General Meeting was held under the patronage of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark from June 28 to July 2 in Nuuk place where Aqqaluk Lynge elected chairman and the Nuuk Declaration was adopted.

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Inupiat people Greenlandic Inuit Barrow (Alaska)
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