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Amazon Alliance
The Amazon Alliance works to defend the rights, territories and environment of indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon Basin. The Alliance is a partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. USA.
Assembly of First Nations
Historically the First Nations have a unique and special relationship with the Crown and the people of Canada, as manifested in treaties and other historical documents. In essence, the special relationship is one of (negotiated agreement with a view toward) peaceful coexistence based on equitable sharing of lands and resources, and ultimately on respect, recognition, and enforcement of our respective right to govern ourselves. The AFN exists to promote the "restoration and enhancement" of this relationship and to ensure that it is mutually beneficial to the First Nations people. The Assembly of First Nations is a national aboriginal lobby organization.
Center for World Indigenous Studies
By democratizing relations between peoples, between nations and states, the diversity of nations and their cultures will continue to enrich the world.
First Peoples Worldwide
First Peoples Worldwide is an international organization led by indigenous peoples and is dedicated to the mission of promoting indigenous economic determination and strengthening indigenous communities through asset control and the dissemination of knowledge.
Forest Peoples Programme
The Forest Peoples Programme is an NGO, established in 1990 by the World Rainforest Movement specifically to work with forest peoples in their struggle to survive the global forest crisis.
Friends of Peoples close to Nature - FPCN
Movement of individuals and groups dedicated to the survival of tribal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers.
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
IEN is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws. United States.
Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network - IBIN
IBIN is being developed as a mechanism to help indigenous peoples to communicate and build capacity in implementing national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB)
IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights. United States.
Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and Information (doCip)
It is an organization established at the request of indigenous representatives to the United Nations.
L'auravetl'an Indigenous Information Center
L’auravetl’an IIC is aiming to improve the abilities of indigenous communities to fully participate in Russian multicultural society and diminish discrimination of indigenous people. Center provides a mechanism to indigenous communities of Russia (however remote and isolated they might be) to speak to the outside world and to each other in their own voices.
Links to Aboriginal Resources
World organizations and aboriginal law and legislation.
Maori News Online
Maori Portal and World News
Native Web
International organization dedicated to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations around the world.
Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples - NCIV
Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples - NCIV Organisation based which has been supporting the promotion and protection of the rights of Indigenous Peoples world-wide.
Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North - RAIPON
The vast expanse of the Russian Federation, from the Kola Peninsula in the northwest to the Chukotka Peninsula in the northeast and Primorye in the east, has long been inhabited by the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Far East. The territory traditionally inhabited makes up more than one-half of the entire territory of the Russian Federation.
Sarayacu
Kichwa community located in the Pastaza province in the Amazonian region of Ecuador.
The Pachamama Alliance
Organisation dedicated to preserve the Earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians.
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies
This site is maintained in conjunction with the Australian National University's Aboriginal Studies and the Circumpolar WWW Virtual Library, containing links to Circumpolar Indigenous resources.
Tonatierra
It is a place of learning and culture where our youth and elders come together to share the knowledge of what it means to be a descendant of the original nations of the continent. Mexica, the Nahuatl or Azteca phrase means two things at once: the House of the People and the House of the Four Directions of the Universe. Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
 
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Bushmen's own website, named "I want to go home".
ILRC is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples’ human rights, cultures, and traditional lands. The Center provides legal and technical support to indigenous communities working on these issues.
Tebtebba Foundation is committed to the recognition, protection and promotion of indigenous peoples' rights worldwide.
The site works on behalf of whanau, hapu and iwi, particularly on environment and resource management issues. New Zealand.

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NEWS
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Landmark decision rules Kenya's removal of indigenous people from ancestral land illegal
Wed Feb 10 2010 - Source: Minority Rights
In a landmark decision, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has found the Kenyan government guilty of violating the rights of the country’s indigenous Endorois community, by evicting them from their lands to make way for a wildlife reserve.
Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes says activist
Mon Jun 08 2009 - Source: ABC news
Up to 100 Amazon natives have been killed after Friday's military crackdown on protesters in Peru and the situation is expected to worsen, says a Canadian Indigenous rights activist.
Indigenous peoples against planetary suicide
The Amazon is a unique land and its peoples as well. One of the purposes of men and women, adults, youth and children who have met in Belém do Pará in this Brazilian giant, is to report their existence and demand the respect of their rights.

Mining Durban Review Conference 2009 Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous peoples and globalization
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