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Indigenous Peoples Organizations

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Non-profit union organization that represents the Lenca People.
Rights & Advocacy Culture Economic development Natural resources & biodiversity Honduras
The Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB) is an organisation facilitating the coordination and exchange of territorial authorities that administer or influence major forested areas of Mesoamerica. Indigenous...
Capacity building Rights & Advocacy Climate change
Peru
MUCECH or Movimiento Unitario Campesino y Etnias de Chile, is the strategic union of national peasant organizations of a social, political, economic and cultural nature, which was born in Talagante on November 13, 1987.
Economic development Agriculture Chile
MASTA (Moskitia Asla Takanka – “Unity of La Moskitia”) was founded on the 26th June 1976 in the community of Awas, in the territory of BAMIASTA. It aims to strengthen indigenous autonomy and governance in La Moskitia...
Rights & Advocacy Climate change Natural resources & biodiversity Honduras
The Council of the Ch'orti' Nation was formed in 2016, we are made up of three indigenous organizations representing the Ch'orti' people, the Ch'orti Peasant Indigenous Association "Nuevo Día", located in the Ch'orti region '...
Rights & Advocacy Culture Justice Guatemala Honduras
Mapuche NEWENCHE Association, founded in 2002 by active members of Mapuche grassroots and sociopolitical organizations, constitutes an Indigenous Association that seeks to create a bridge at the service of the human dignity...
Rights & Advocacy Capacity building Culture Livelihoods Chile
The Honduran Black Fraternal Organization, OFRANEH, emerged in 1978 as a Federation of the Garífuna people of Honduras, blending into the defense of their cultural and territorial rights, with the purpose of achieving...
Rights & Advocacy Natural resources & biodiversity Honduras
Colombia
In the 1960s, the indigenous peoples joined the struggles for land led by the peasant sectors. Subsequently, in the 1970s, the creation of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) led to the creation of different regional...
Rights & Advocacy Culture Colombia
The Native Amazon Operation (OPAN) is the first indigenous organization founded in Brazil, in 1969. For 52 years, OPAN has been working to strengthen indigenous leadership in the regional scenario, valuing their culture and...
Rights & Advocacy Culture Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Brazil
The General Organization of Mayuruna has the objective of fighting for development and for cultural valorization, in addition to the defense of the Matsés right and territory.
Rights & Advocacy Culture Brazil