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Indigenous Peoples Organizations

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The Ashaninka do Rio Amônia Association – Apiwtxa (a term that means union) was created in 1991 as a strategy to strengthen our community. It works as an operational arm of the community so that we can manage our projects and...
Capacity building Economic development Brazil
The Associação Indigenista de Maringá is a non-profit institution that works with the reception of peoples, promotion of the Kaingang culture and humanization of the quality of life of this population. For this, ASSINDI...
Education Youth Culture Livelihoods Brazil
The handicraft produced by indigenous women from Tarauacá and Jordão and other ethnic groups present in the state of Acre, reflects the ancestry of the Kaxinawá ethnic group, one of the most expressive in the Brazilian Amazon...
Culture Brazil
The Associaçao dos Povos Indígenas Tiriyó, Kaxuyana e Txikuyana (APITIKATXI) is an association which represents the collective interests of the communities in the Tumucumaque Indigenous Reserve to government agencies and non...
Rights & Advocacy Capacity building Brazil
ATINI is a non-profit organization, based in Brasília – Brazil, internationally acknowledged for its pioneering role in defending the rights of indigenous children. Atini is made up of indigenous leaders, anthropologists...
Youth Rights & Advocacy Brazil
Center for Indigenous Work - CTI is a non-profit association, founded in March 1979 by anthropologists and indigenists. It is made up of professionals with qualified training and experience in the most varied fields and...
Natural resources & biodiversity Culture Rights & Advocacy Brazil
APIB's mission is the promote and defense the indigenous rights, based on the articulation and union between the peoples and indigenous organizations of the different regions of the country.
Rights & Advocacy Brazil
The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon – COIAB, founded on April 19, 1989, is the largest regional indigenous organization in Brazil, which emerged on the initiative of leaders of existing...
Rights & Advocacy Sustainable Development Women's empowerment Youth Brazil
The mission of COIAB is to defend the rights of indigenous peoples to land, health, education, culture and sustainability, considering the diversity of peoples, and seeking their autonomy through political articulation and...
Rights & Advocacy Health Culture Education Brazil
The Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin is an Indigenous Organization of international convergence that acts on behalf of 511 Indigenous Peoples, of which approximately 66 are Indigenous Peoples in...
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Founded in 1987, FOIRN represents 23 indigenous peoples from the Rio Negro, in an area that encompasses the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas.
Economic development Sustainable Development Education Climate change Brazil
Located in the North Zone of Natal, in the Redinha neighborhood, the Gamboa do Jaguaribe historical and ecological site develops activities to preserve indigenous cultures and the environment.
Natural resources & biodiversity Culture Brazil