Indigenous Peoples Organizations

50 years ago our community was forcibly evicted from our homeland, The Chagos Islands, by the British Government to make way for a United States military base. We were exiled to the Seychelles and Mauritius where we have...

Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization (MCMDO) is an indigenous, nongovernmental, nonprofit and humanitarian organization founded in 1997. MCMDO works to improve the lives of disadvantaged mothers and...

The Saami Council is a voluntary Saami organization (a non–governmental organization), with Saami member organizations in Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden. Since it was founded in 1956 the Saami Council has actively dealt...