International organizations

Last Updated on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:30

In the past forty years, NCIV has cooperated with many other organizations outside The Netherlands that work on the promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples. These include:

  •  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.

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