Group Category: Indigenous Rights

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.

International Rivers works to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them. It opposes destructive dams and the development model they advance, and encourages better ways of meeting people’s needs for water, energy, and protection from damaging floods. To achieve this mission, the organization collaborates with a global network of local communities, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and other partners.

Cultural Survival partners with indigenous communities to defend their lands, languages, and cultures. The organization assists these communities in obtaining the knowledge, advocacy tools, and strategic partnerships needed to protect their rights. When governments don’t respond, Cultural Survival partners with communities to bring their cases to international commissions and courts, and becomes involved with policy makers in advocating for their rights.

Amnesty International’s (AI) mission is to undertake targeted research, advocacy, and campaigning focused on preventing and ending grave human rights abuses. AI investigates, monitors, and exposes human rights abuses, educates people, and mobilizes our 3 million activists globally to help transform societies and create a safer, more just world. Our vision is of a world in which every person—regardless of race, religion, gender, or ethnicity—enjoys all of the rights enshrined in international human rights law.Amnesty International is a multi-year grantee.

Founded in 1996, Amazon Watch works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. We believe that the most effective way to defend the Amazon rainforest is to support and advance the rights of indigenous peoples, whose territories encompass over one quarter of the region, and who have lived in harmony with its abundant biodiversity for millennia.