Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Native Amazon Operation (OPAN) is the first indigenous organization founded in Brazil, in 1969. For 52 years, OPAN has been working to strengthen indigenous leadership in the regional scenario, valuing their culture and...

The General Organization of Mayuruna has the objective of fighting for development and for cultural valorization, in addition to the defense of the Matsés right and territory.

We Mẽbêngôkre (or Kayapó) communities created, in 2001, the Raoni Institute to defend the interests of our people. IR is a non-profit, non-partisan Civil Society Organization of Public Interest located in the city of Peixoto...

SPDM - Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina is a civil association, of a philanthropic nature, recognized as a Federal, State and Municipal public utility entity.

The United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda is a Batwa-directed, community-based organisation headquartered in Kisoro, Uganda. Our sole purpose is to assist the Batwa in improving their lives so they may live on...

The União dos Povos Indígenas do Vale do Javari (UNIVAJA) is a civil entity with private rights, non-profit, partisan and religious, with headquarters and jurisdiction in the city of Atalaia do Norte, in the state of Amazonas...

Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political, non-religious and voluntary organization formed in April 1997 by a group of women in Kaduna State. WEP envisions a world where the lives of...