Editing Inuit Circumpolar Council (section)

==Structure and functions==
The main goals of the organization are to strengthen unity among Inuit, to promote their [[human rights|human]] ([[Indigenous rights|Indigenous]] and [[Linguistic rights|Linguistic]]) rights and interests, and to ensure the development of [[Inuit culture]].

Structurally, the organization is made up of four separate offices in each of the four Inuit homelands, chartered individually under their national rules. The Presidents of ICC Chukotka, ICC Alaska, ICC Canada, and ICC Greenland, along with one Executive Council Member elected from each of the nations, make up the eight-member ICC Executive Council. The Executive Council is presided over by an International Chair (formerly International President—the title was changed in 2002).

ICC holds a General Assembly every four years, bringing together Inuit from across the northern circumpolar region to discuss issues of international importance to their communities, provide direction for the work of the organization over the next four years, and divide responsibility for issue areas between the national offices. Assembly delegates appoint an international chair from the General Assembly host-country, along with the members of the Executive Council, and develop [[policy|policies]] and [[Resolution (policy debate)|resolution]]s for the coming term.

The General Assembly, and thus the International Chair position, rotates between the four Inuit nations quadrennially at the General Assemblies. At the 2002 General Assembly in [[Kuujjuaq]], Nunavik, Canada, the Chair passed from Greenland, where it had been held for the previous seven years by [[Aqqaluk Lynge]], now a member of the [[United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues]], to Canada, where [[Sheila Watt-Cloutier]], formerly the President of ICC Canada, took the position.

In 2006, the Chair passed to ICC Alaska at the General Assembly in [[Utqiaġvik, Alaska|Barrow]], and was then occupied by [[Patricia L. Cochran]], formerly executive director of the [[Alaska Native Science Commission]]. At that Assembly, ICC also voted to change its name to Inuit Circumpolar Council as there has been perennial confusion over an organizational name that sounds more like a past meeting.<ref name=chair>{{cite web|url=https://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/icc-international/executive-council/ |title=
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