Group Category: Indigenous Rights

Founded in the 1980s, CONAIE is Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization. It brings together the different nationalities, towns, communities, and Indigenous associations of Ecuador.…

Fighting for people and planet since 1985, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to preserve forests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights by…

Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) partners with Indigenous and local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture. ACT works toward three global…

Help Our School is a Norway-based organization that was established to provide education to indigenous Tuareg children in Timbolo (Timbuktu/Mali). Indigenous Sami people came up with the idea for the organization because they wished to show solidarity with other indigenous people. The Timbolo School was built in 2016 and has seventy students between the ages of 7 and 14 from the nomadic Tuareg people. In the summer of 2019, arsonists burned down the school.

The Pariri Indigenous Association fights for the physical and cultural survival of seven Munduruku villages of the Middle Tapajós and works in conjunction with the Ipereagayu Movement and associations of Alto Tapajós. Its main mission is to defend indigenous rights and to improve the quality of life in the villages by strengthening their traditional cultural values ​​and sustainability projects.

A 2019 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network supported the Pariri Indigenous Association’s “casa de forno” project.

Endangered Language Fund (ELF) was founded in 1996 with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Its main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums.

The Quixote Center is a multi-issue social justice organization that was founded in 1977. It works alongside partner organizations to bring about lasting systemic change. The Center stands in solidarity and friendship with those who seek to improve the lives of the very poor. It provides guidance, technical assistance, and funding to support the work of these groups and allow their movements and programs to mature. To accomplish this, it relies on the support of likeminded people who recognize the need for structural changes in an increasingly unequal global society.

The Human Rights Film Archives at the PUKAÑAWI Center of Cultural Management in Bolivia are designed to nurture the expression of cultural diversity through film and human rights education. The archives are a place for audiovisual production and the distribution of human rights films. The center provides visual education about human and indigenous rights in Latin America to filmmakers and to the Bolivian public.

COPINH is a social and political organization that aims to support the indigenous and popular movements of Honduras. Based in the southwest of the country, the group serves as a facilitating body for recognition of the political, social, cultural, and economic rights of Honduran indigenous communities. By generating constant debate and analysis concerning the regional and national climates, COPINH works to heighten the social and political consciousness of Hondurans as well as improve their living conditions.

Survival International is a leading organization that helps tribal peoples worldwide defend their lives, protect their lands, and determine their own futures. Survival International opposes the colonialist attitude that envisions tribal peoples as separate from the modern world, and the organization fights the many ways indigenous peoples’ rights are violated. Survival International works with hundreds of tribal communities and organizations with the aim of giving tribal people a platform to address the world.