Other organizations

Last Updated on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:47

Links to other organizations, working to promote the rights and well-being of indigenous peoples.

  •  Dutch organizations (5)

    List of organisations in The Netherlands
    • Aim for Human Rights
      Aim for human rights, voorheen HOM, zet zich in voor een wereld waarin de rechten van alle mensen worden gerespecteerd. Wij steunen wereldwijd organisaties die opkomen voor de rechten van de mens. Lokale organisaties zien vaak als eerste dat mensenrechten geschonden worden. Aim for human rights helpt deze organisaties. Soms financieel, maar vooral middels trainingen en kennisoverdracht. Dankzij deze samenwerking versterken partnerorganisaties hun capaciteiten, waardoor ze de mensenrechten in hun samenleving beter kunnen beschermen.
    • Amnesty International Nederland
      Amnesty International zet zich sinds 1961 in voor de naleving van de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens. Aanvankelijk werd vooral actie gevoerd tegen schendingen die worden begaan door overheden, zoals het opsluiten van gewetensgevangenen, marteling en de doodstraf. Met de jaren breidde Amnesty haar mandaat verder uit en ondertussen nemen ook schendingen door gewapende oppositiegroeperingen en schendingen in de ‘privé-sfeer’, zoals huiselijk geweld, een belangrijke positie in. Sinds 2001 vallen ook schendingen van sociaal-economische rechten onder Amnesty’s mandaat.
    • Chakana
      NGO focused on the indigenous peoples of the highlands of Bolivia and Peru.
    • Kalahari Support Group
      NGO focused on the San people of the Kalahari dessert (South Africa).
    • Survival International (NL)
      Survival International is een mensenrechtenorganisatie die zich inzet voor de rechten van in stamverband levende inheemse volken. SI doet dit door campagne voeren (onderzoek en publicitieit), inheemse volkstammen te steunen (projecten) en voorlichting te geven. SI heeft een betaalde medewerker in NL. Het hoofdkantoor is in de UK
  •  International organizations (10)

    List of organisations in other parts of the world
    • Cultural Survival (USA)
      Cultural Survival works with indigenous communities in Asia, Africa, South America, North America, and Australia, becoming the leading US-based organization defending the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. Our efforts are guided by a board of directors that includes some of the world’s pre-eminent indigenous leaders, as well as anthropologists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs, and our executive director is a renowned human rights lawyer. Headquarter is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
      Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best. We work with forest peoples in South America, Central Africa, and South and South East Asia to help these communities secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation is best achieved on their lands.
    • Global Forest Coalition (GFC)
      De Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and interest groups for indigenous peoples, especially focused at international forest management. The secretariat is in The Netherlands.
    • IWGIA (DK)
      IWGIA's overall mission is to endorse and promote indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, their cultural integrity and their right to development on their own conditions. In order to fulfil this mission, IWGIA works within a wide range of areas: documentation and publication, human rights, lobbying and advocacy, research and projects.
    • Land is Life (USA)
      LAND IS LIFE is a unique and effective indigenous-led organization that is at the forefront of the international struggle to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples. Land is Life funds indigenous-led campaigns for change and offers strategic help to indigenous organizations. We also champion extraordinary individuals who can give voice to their struggle in their home countries and internationally.
    • Minority Rights Group (UK)
      Minority Rights Group International campaigns worldwide with around 130 partners in over 60 countries to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard. Through training and education, legal cases, publications and the media, we support minority and indigenous people as they strive to maintain their rights to the land they live on, the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in education and employment, and to full participation in public life.
    • TerraLingua (USA)
      Terralingua supports the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life - the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity - through an innovative program of research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action.
    • The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV)
      Society for Threatened Peoples/ Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) is an international human rights organisation which campaigns with and on behalf of threatened and persecuted ethnic and religious minorities, nationalities and indigenous peoples. We stand side by side with the victims of crimes against humanity, identifying the individual perpetrators of such crimes and their accomplices by name. And we have no hesitation in speaking out when victims become perpetrators. Because the principle that inspires all our activities is expressed in the slogan "Not Turning a Blind Eye”.
    • The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
      UNPO is an international, non-violent, and democratic membership organisation. Its members are indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognised or occupied territories who have joined together to protect and promote their human and cultural rights, to preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them. UNPO is mainly focuses on lobby at the UN. The secretariat is in The Hague.
    • Vlaams Centrum voor Inheemse Volken (VCIV) (België)
      Het Vlaams Centrum voor Inheemse Volken (VCIV), is een mensenrechtenorganisatie die opkomt voor de erkenning en de bescherming van de rechten van inheemse volken. Op vraag van de inheemse volken en hun organisaties zet het Vlaams Centrum voor Inheemse Volken activiteiten op om de belangen van deze volken te verdedigen. Concreet hun recht op zelfbeschikking, hun recht om zelf te bepalen hoe ze hun toekomst vorm willen geven.
  •  Indigenous Peoples' Organizations (6)

    List of indigenous peoples'organizations in the world
    • Coördinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA)
      Network of 9 indigenous organisations in 9 countries in the Amazone, Headquarters are in Quito, Ecuador
    • International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest
      Network of indigenous and tribal peoples depending on the forest. Headquarters are in Changmai, Thailand.
    • Raipon
      RAIPON unites 41 indigenous groups whose total population is around 250,000 people. These peoples are represented by 34 regional and ethnic organizations that have the authority to represent these groups both in Russia and in the international community
    • The Asian indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
      The Asian indigenous Peoples Pact is a regional organization conceived by indigenous peoples organizations in 1988 to strengthen the process of building cooperation and solidarity among indigenous peoples of Asia. It is committed to the cause of protecting and revitalizing indigenous systems and institutions and their control over their ancestral homelands and their own development and future. Headquarters are in Chnagmai, Thailand
    • The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
      IPACC is a network of 150 indigenous peoples' organisations in 20 African countries. Headquarters are in South Africa.
    • The International Indian Treaty Council (ITTC)
      IITC is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands. Headquarters are in Alaska, USA.

About NCIV

Since 1969, NCIV is an NGO that supports the promotion, recognition and protection of indigenous peoples' rights. NCIV brings the issues and views of indigenous peoples to the attention of the Dutch government, civil society, business and science and works to encourage them to make a positive contribution to improving the situation of indigenous peoples at national and international levels.
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