Chandra Kalindi Roy Henriksen

Chandra Kalindi Roy-Henriksen (born 1956) is a Bangladeshi advocate on the rights of indigenous people 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 Norwegian Sami lawyer John Bernard Henriksen. She is the elder sister of Debashish Roy, a barrister.

Chandra Kalindi Roy Henriksen
চন্দ্র রায় হেনরিকসন
Born1956 (age 63–64)
Rangamati, East Pakistan, Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
OccupationLawyer
Parent(s)

Early life and career

Roy was born in Rangamati in 1956 as the first child of the fiftieth Chakma Raja Tridev Roy and first wife Rani Arati Roy. Chandra 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

In 2010, Roy was appointed as the head of the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at UN headquarters in New York City.

Works
  • Land rights of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 2000.[3]
  • Chandra Roy; 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.
  • 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.

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Interactive Dialogue Of The United Nations General Assembly On Harmony With Nature, Wednesday, 20 April 2011, New York Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. WorldCat entry
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