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Rajkumari '''Chandra Kalindi Roy-Henriksen''' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: চন্দ্র রায় হেনরিকসন), also known as '''Chandra Roy''', is a [[Bangladesh]]i international advocate on the rights of [[indigenous peoples]] and Chief of the Secretariat of the [[United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues]].<ref>http://www.humanrights.cn/en/Messages/Focus/79/7/t20121213_972133.htm</ref><ref>[http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/indigenous.pdf Interactive Dialogue Of The United Nations General Assembly On Harmony With Nature, Wednesday, 20 April 2011, New York]</ref> She is a member of the [[Chakma people|Chakma]] Royal Family from the [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]]. Roy is married to leading[[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Sami people|Sami]] lawyer John Bernard Henriksen. She is the elder sister of [[Debashish Roy]], the current titular Chakma [[Raja]]. 

==Early life and career== 
Born in [[Rangamati]] in 1956 as Chandra Kalindi Desiree Roy, she is the first child of the fiftieth Chakma Raja [[Tridev Roy]] and his first wife Rani Arati Roy. She 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 (administrative office)|Secretariat]] of the [[United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues|Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues]] at [[UN headquarters]] in [[New York]].

==Works==
*{{cite book |title=Land rights of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh |publisher=International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs |year=2000}}<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/land-rights-of-the-indigenous-peoples-of-the-chittagong-hill-tracts-bangladesh/oclc/45590605?referer=br&ht=edition WorldCat entry]</ref>
*{{cite book |author=Chandra Roy And Mike Kaye |url=http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs08/ILOhandbook.pdf |title=The International Labour Organization: A handbook for minorities and indigenous peoples |publisher=Minority Rights Group International and Anti-Slavery International |year=2002 |accessdate=9 June 2014}}
*{{cite book |author=Roy, Chandra; Tauli-Corpuz, V.; Medina, A.R.; Research, I.P.I.C.f.P.; Education |year=2004  |title=Beyond the silencing of the guns |publisher=Tebtebba, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education  |isbn=9789719284659 |url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=Uj2AAAAAMAAJ }}

==See also==
*[[Irene Khan]]
*[[Sultana Kamal]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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