Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Arctic Athabaskan Council was founded in 2000. At that time it represented approximately 32,000 indigenous peoples of Athabaskan descent. Today there are council members in Alaska (including fifteen traditional villages)...

It is our wish that ethnic minorities realize their right to a better quality of life, confidently participate in development processes; national cultural heritages will be preserved and handed down to descendants; with their...

The Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA) was established by a group of Cambodian Indigenous Students in Phnom Penh in 2005 and was officially recognised by the Royal Government of Cambodia (Ministry of Interior) in...

Coastal First Nations is a unique alliance of nine Nations living on British Columbia’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii. Each Nation has its own distinct culture, governance and territory.

The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and...

The Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation for Education and Environment (IPF) was officially established by a joint effort of indigenous peoples’ leaders and local academics. Its main aim at that time was to build capacity for...

Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has flourished and grown into a major international non-government organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit of Alaska...

The Maleya Foundation is an indigenous peoples’ organization working on environment, climate change, human rights and development in Bangladesh, with focus on the rights of IPs.

National Confederation of Indigenous Horse Societies ( NCIHS ) is a forum representing different societies working for the indigenous breed of horses ive. Marwari, Kathiawari, Maipuri, Spiti, Zanskari and Sindhi.

POINT (Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together) was established in March 2012. It is started as a response to the lack of organization led by “Indigenous Peoples” working for Indigenous Peoples’ issues in Myanmar. In the...

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid.

Tarum Development Organization (TDO) visualized a prosperous, self-reliant, self-governed and just society that is free from all forms of discrimination and exploitation and where all peoples can live with peace and dignity.