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Galina Angarova
SIRGE Coalition
Executive Director
Description
Galina Angarova is an Indigenous rights activist coming from the Ekhirit nation of the Buryat People in Siberia. She serves as Executive Director of the SIRGE Coalition. She is the former Executive Director of Cultural Survival. She has represented the Indigenous Peoples’ Major Group at the UN and negotiated the Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. Galina has led Indigenous experts to review safeguards for Indigenous Peoples for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Green Climate Fund. She has previously organized direct actions and campaigns to block pipeline construction to close a toxic paper mill on Lake Baikal, and to stop a hydro-dam from flooding Evenk Peoples’ lands.
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