In January 2025, ADC Memorial and International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia submitted a number of analytical materials to the UN bodies, highlighting the problems of Indigenous peoples.

ADC Memorial and ICIPR informed the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia about violations of the rights of Indigenous peoples. Special attention was paid to the problem of the catastrophic consequences of involving Indigenous peoples in Russia‘s criminal war against Ukraine, as well as the criminalization of indigenous activists and organizations (recognizing dozens of groups and organizations as “extremist“ and then “terrorist“ in 2024).
Two analytical materials were submitted to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for its future consolidated reports : “Indigenous Peoples right to data, including data collection and disaggregation” and “The right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional economies”.

The experts emphasize that ensuring the rights of Indigenous peoples to the traditional economy is impossible without the development of independent institutions of self-government and full-fledged, rather than formal/fake participation of Indigenous communities in decision–making. In order to implement the principle of free, prior and informed consent, it is necessary to fully inform Indigenous communities about the plans of mining companies to use traditional territories. The issue of data collection and disaggregation is directly related to the involvement of Indigenous representatives in Russia‘s military aggression against Ukraine, since mobilization, military service, registration of the wounded and killed, and other military aspects require specialized recording and, accordingly, data collection and storage, in the case of Indigenous peoples – disaggregated, since they have special conditions of conscription.

The Report ‘The right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional economies’