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Amazon Watch
Organizations
It works to "protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. To this end, it partners up with "indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns...
Forestation/ Forest Managament, Indigenous Peoples
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Organizations
Is a non-profit organization and think tank run by a number of scholars and activists seeking to apply and inform people of traditional knowledge. It strives to advance the recognition...
Awareness, Indigenous Peoples
COBRA Collective
Organizations
The COBRA Collective is a social enterprise working striving for a “world where marginalized communities are empowered to control their own destiny.” It “empowers communities to achieve positive change through...
Capacity Building, Minorities/ Marginalised People/ Disadvantaged individuals
Cultural Survival
Organizations
Cultural Survival is a non-profit organization that “advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience.” It “employs a participatory, rights-based approach to its relationships”...
Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples
Global Indigenous Council 
Organizations
It aims to provide all First Nations with the necessary tools and resources to improve their lives. It can also help ignite the fire that will allow them to share...
Indigenous Peoples, Policy
Global Reconciliation
Organizations
It considers reconciliation as “an ongoing process that contributes to consolidating peace, breaking the cycle of violence, and restoring justice at personal and social levels.” Consequently, it promotes “reconciliation by...
Cooperation, Societal Divisions
Gwich’in Council International
Organizations
Is a nonprofit organization that “represents 9,000 Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska as a Permanent Participant in the Arctic Council; the only international organization to give...
Democracy/Rule of Law, Indigenous Peoples
Idle No More
Organizations
A First Nations of Canada organization focused on justice, security, resource use, and climate change. Arose in response to attacks on treaty rights by resource extractors. Chapters in Brazil, the...
Indigenous Peoples, Politics
Indigenous Climate Action
Organizations
A rights and awareness group that advocates an indigenous perspective on climate change. ICA believes that "the leadership of Indigenous peoples, as stewards, caretakers and protectors of the earth, is...
Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Environmental Network
Organizations
A grassroots network of indigenous peoples in North America that aims to protect sacred sites and resources, create economically sustainable communities, and build alliances among indigenous communities, tribes, and various...
Indigenous Peoples