Indigenous Peoples

Synonyms:

indigenous communities

indigenous community

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People whose ancestors inhabited a place or a country when persons from another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live more in conformity with their own social, economic, and cultural customs and traditions than those of the country of which they now form a part.

Source: Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, UNHCHR, 1991.

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Iepé (Iepé)

O Iepé – Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena é uma entidade da sociedade civil sem fins lucrativos, criada em 2002, cuja missão é contribuir para o fortalecimento cultural e político e para o desenvolvimento sustentável das comunidades indígenas que vivem no Amapá e norte do Pará, proporcionando-lhes assessoria especializada e capacitação técnica diversificada, entre as quais estão gestão de projetos, valorização e gestão de patrimônios culturais, educação escolar diferenciada, educação em saúde, fortalecimento político e gestão territorial e ambiental.

Revista temática (temática )

A revista Temática é uma publicação mensal de Comunicação e áreas afins (interdisciplinar), destinada à publicação de artigos científicos de pesquisadores da graduação e da pós-graduação (graduandos, graduados, mestrandos, mestres, doutorandos, doutores e pós-doutores). Fundada em 2004, tem conceito Qualis da Capes e atualmente está integrada ao NAMID - Núcleo de Arte, Midia e Informação Digital, do Curso de Comunicação em Mídias Digitais (DEMID/CCHLA/UFPB). A Temática recebe artigos em fluxo contínuo. Trabalhos que não estiverem atendendo rigorosamente as Diretrizes para autores não serão avaliados.

Bertha Foundation

Bertha Foundation fights for a more just world. We support activists, storytellers, and lawyers who are working to bring about social and economic justice and human rights for all.

UNION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT VOLUNTEERS (UCDV)

The Union of Community Development Volunteers (UCDV) an indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), based in Uganda – commonly known as “The Pearl of Africa” that is kindly extending an invitation of collaboration with your great organization. Union of Community

Indigenistas Associados (INA)

A INA é uma entidade civil sem fins lucrativos, de caráter temático e corporativo, formalmente instituída em 08 de julho de 2017. Seus principais objetivos são a busca pela promoção e defesa dos direitos, interesses e prerrogativas individuais e coletivas de seus associados em todo o território nacional, bem como o posicionamento e a incidência na formulação, execução e defesa da política indigenista, a partir da perspectiva da autonomia dos povos indígenas e do Estado pluriétnico e democrático.

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Maya America/Revista Maya America is an interdisciplinary and open access journal that publishes in English and Spanish. Academic essays are double-blind peer reviewed while the creative works are peer reviewed. Authors keep full rights over their work. Although the journal takes its name from the contemporary Maya Diaspora, we also welcome essays and commentary that discuss the Americas in additional ways.

Maya America is indexed in EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER )

HEKS champions the cause of a more humane and just world and a life in dignity. Internationally, HEKS/EPER focuses on rural community development, humanitarian aid and inter-church cooperation.

Rural Women Development Centre (RWDEC)

Rural Women Development Centre (Gramin Mahila Utthan Kendra) is a well-established NGO with the primary focus on education rights and socio-economic empowerment of marginalized and disadvantaged girls and women. It also aims to minimize various forms of injustice and prejudices by striving for an equal and a just society.

Equator Initiative

What we do

The Equator Initiative brings together the United Nations, governments, civil society, businesses and grassroots organizations to recognize and advance local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.

We seek to

Recognize the success of local and indigenous initiatives
Create opportunities and platforms to share knowledge and good practice
Inform policy to foster an enabling environment for local and indigenous community action

Asian Indigenous Women's Network (AIWN)

The Asian Indigenous Women’s Network wants to support, sustain and help consolidate the various efforts of indigenous women in Asia to critically understand the roots of their marginalized situation and to empower themselves by becoming aware of their rights as women and as indigenous peoples, and by developing their own organizations or structures for empowerment.

Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Network (IKAP)

Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation also known as Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Network - Mainland Montane South East Asia (IKAP-MMSEA).

Aims
Build the capacity of ethnic minorities and networks in Mainland Montane South East Asia to incorporate their indigenous knowledge and culture in local development work, to encourage respect for and understanding of indigenous knowledge and to promote endogenous development.

Alianza Territorial Mapuche

The Alianza Territorial Mapuche (PuLofMapuXawvn ) is one of the grassroots organizations based in Gulu Mapu, the Chilean side of Wallmapu. The ATM’s core mission is the full defence of the Mapuche’s inherent rights, especially concerning the protection of their territory and natural environment. ATM is similar to an NGO in the sense that the organization is not registered under Chilean law. The ATM covers different territories of the Mapuche Nation and is involved in several communities that feel they represent the spirit of the organization.