Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Ainu Association of Hokkaido is an organization made up of Ainu who live in Hokkaido, which aims to "work to improve the social status of Ainu people and to develop, transmit and preserve Ainu culture in order to...

The Aleut International Association (AIA) is a not-for-profit corporation that represents the Indigenous peoples of Aleut descent in the United States and the Russian Federation. It was created by the Aleutian Pribilof...

Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) or The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago is an independent civil organization of which members are from Indigenous Peoples communities around the archipelago.

CI's objective is to improve well-being, rights and sustainable development of the Indigenous Peoples communities, through strengthening the Indigenous Peoples’ sense of ownership on land and natural resources management...

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 China Ethnic Museum is a museum in Beijing, China. The museum's goals are the following: To demonstrate ethnic architecture To preserve ethnic relics To spread ethnic knowledge To study ethnic heritage To enhance ethnic...

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...

ECDO is a non-government and not-for-profit voluntary organization working for the development of different indigenous communities in Sylhet Division, the northeastern corner of Bangladesh. Our aim is to ensure that...

Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) established in 2020 is a platform of the lawyers belonging to indigenous peoples in India seeking to strengthen the enforcement of existing rights of indigenous peoples 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...

Dayakology Institute or ID is a non-governmental organization that carries out efforts to revitalize and restitution of Dayak cultural identity. ID was established as a response of the Dayak Indigenous People to various...

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...