Editing Inuit Circumpolar Council (section)

{{Short description|Inuit run Arctic organization}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox organization
| native_name =  {{unbulleted list|
  | {{native name|fr|Conférence circumpolaire inuite}}
  | {{native name|kl|Inuit Issittormiut Siunnersuisooqatigiiffiat}}
  | {{native name|iu|ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᐅᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᑦ}}
  | {{native name|ru|Инуитский Приполярный Совет}}
 }}
| image = InuitCircumpolarCouncil.png
| image_border =
| size =
| caption = The logo of the Inuit Circumpolar Council<br />Stylised motif of a frame drum with a handle and a stick
| map =  Inuit conf map.png
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| map_alt = 
| map_caption = Member states and regions of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
| founding_location = [[Nuuk]], [[Greenland]]
| abbreviation = ICC
| motto =
| formation = June 1980
| extinction =
| type = Inter- and multinational [[non-governmental organization]] (NGO) 
| status = active
| purpose = To promote and to ensure [[Human rights|right]]s, interests, and the development of [[Inuit#Cultural history|Inuit culture]] and [[Inuit languages|languages]].
| headquarters = [[Anchorage, Alaska]]<br />[[Ottawa|Ottawa, Canada]]<br />[[Nuuk|Nuuk, Greenland]]<br />[[Anadyr (town)|Anadyr, Russia]]
| location =
| region_served = {{Collapsible list |titlestyle= background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;
 |title= 4 regions
  |Alaska
  |Canada
  |Greenland
  |Russia
}}
| membership = 180,000
| languages = English, French
| leader_title = Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
| leader_name = [[Sara Olsvig]]<ref name=chair/>
| leader_title2 = Vice-Chairs of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
| leader_name2 = President of ICC Alaska<br />[[Marie Greene]]<br />President of ICC Canada<br />[[Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk]]<br />President of ICC Greenland<br />[[Kuupik V. Kleist]]<br />President of ICC Russia<br />[[Irina Mishina]]<ref name=chair/>
| main_organ = ICC International
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| website = {{url|www.inuitcircumpolar.com}}
|remarks = }}
{{Indigenous rights}}

[[File:Inuitconf.JPG|thumb|Former logo of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference]]
The '''Inuit Circumpolar Council''' ('''ICC'''; formerly the '''Inuit Circumpolar Conference''') is a multinational [[non-governmental organization]] (NGO) and Indigenous Peoples' Organization (IPO) representing the 180,000 [[Inuit]] and [[Yupik peoples|Yupik]] (sometimes referred to as [[Eskimo]]) people living in [[Alaska]] (United States), Canada, [[Greenland]] ([[Danish Realm|Kingdom of Denmark]]), and the [[Chukchi Peninsula]] ([[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], Russia).<ref name="ICCCharter">{{Cite web|title=ICC Charter |publisher=Inuit Circumpolar Council|url=https://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/icc-international/icc-charter/|access-date=23 April 2024|website=www.inuitcircumpolar.com|quote=“Inuit” means indigenous members of the Inuit homeland recognized by Inuit as being members of their people and shall include the Inupiat, Yupik (Alaska), Inuit, Inuvialuit (Canada), Kalaallit (Greenland) and Yupik (Russia).}}</ref> ICC was accredited by the [[United Nations Economic and Social Council|Economic and Social Council]] (ECOSOC) and was granted [[Consultative status#Special|special consultative status]] (category II) at the [[United Nations]] in 1983.

The Conference, which first met in June 1977 in [[Utqiagvik, Alaska|Barrow, Alaska]] (now Utqiaġvik), initially represented indigenous [[circumpolar peoples]] from Canada, Alaska and Greenland. In 1980 the charter and by-laws of ICC were adopted. The Conference agreed to replace the term Eskimo with the term Inuit. This has not however met with widespread acceptance by some groups, most pre-eminently the Yupik (see Background section below). The goals of the Conference are to strengthen ties between Arctic people and to promote human, cultural, political and environmental rights and polities at the international level.<ref>{{cite book |title='Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates'  |last=Pound |first=Richard W. |publisher=Fitzhenry and Whiteside |year=2005}}</ref>

ICC holds a General Assembly every four years. ICC is one of the six [[Arctic]] indigenous communities to have the status of Permanent Participant on the [[Arctic Council]].