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Aqqaluk Lynge

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President of Inuit Circumpolar Council, member of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

PoliticiansBorn 1947 · age 78
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Aqqaluk Lynge was the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council from 1995 to 2002. He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. 's Economic and Social Council.

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2021honorary doctorate of the University of Greenland
2004Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
1994Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

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Aqqaluk Lynge was the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council from 1995 to 2002. He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. An indigenous Kalaaleq, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012. Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays, published in Greenlandic, Danish, English and French.

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Born 1947 · age 78
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