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 are an indigenous organization that works in 15 basins (Putumayo, Napo, Tigre, Corrientes, Marañón, Yaquerana, Bajo Amazonas, Ucayali) and has the wisdom of 15 indigenous peoples and 21 base federations whom it represents...

The ORPIA Regional Indigenous Organization is an association created in 1993, which brings together representatives of the 20 indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon.

PACOS Trust is a community-based organization dedicated to supporting indigenous communities in Sabah. Although registered under the Trustees Ordinance (Sabah) only in 1997, we have been actively involved with communities...

Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Kenya is the Kenyan country chapter of the PELUM Association and has a membership of 57 Member Organizations. PELUM Kenya network promotes agroecological principles and...

POINT (Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together) was established in March 2012. It is started as a response to the lack of organization led by “Indigenous Peoples” working for Indigenous Peoples’ issues in Myanmar. In the...

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...

Red Nacional de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos Indígenas Lencas de La Paz (REDHILPAZ) is a group of indigenous leaders that provides support to cases of human rights violations in the department of La Paz, and now they are...

The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition is an initiative of public interest CSOs and social movements - peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless people, consumers, urban people living in poverty...

The Saami Council is a voluntary Saami organization (a non–governmental organization), with Saami member organizations in Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden. Since it was founded in 1956 the Saami Council has actively dealt...

SAFIHRO is an indigenous and Human Rights, Community and Skills development, Paralegal Services and Judicial Council organisation. SAFIHRO has been founded by a descendant of the Griqua people, Barend Christoffel van Wyk for...