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Contents below:

     · Directories & listings

       · International organizations

              ~ UN system

              ~ Non-UN

         · Professional, research & academic associations, societies & initiatives

           · NGOs & networks

Also see:

     · Institutions listed at Traditional ecological knowledge

Directories & listings

List of Indigenous rights organizations @ Wikipedia

Indigenous Peoples organizations @ UN

World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples @ Minority Rights Group International


International organizations ~ UN system

UN General Assembly (UNGA)

     United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

UN Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC)U

          United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

Department of Economic and Social Affairs

     Indigenous Peoples at the UN

          State Of The World’s Indigenous Peoples (SOWIP)

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

     Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

     Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

FAO

     Indigenous Peoples

UN Development Program (UNDP)

     Equator Initiative

UNFCCC

     Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

     Traditional Knowledge Information Portal (TKIP)


International organizations ~ Non-UN

OAS

     Indigenous Peoples

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

     Indigenous Peoples

Global Indigenous Council

International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IIFBES)

United League of Indigenous Nations

Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO)

World Council of Indigenous Peoples

     · 1974-1996

    · Wikipedia entry


Professional, research & academic associations, societies, and initiatives

Anthropology and Environment Society

Center For World Indigenous Studies

Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA)

     · @ McGill University

Center for Native Peoples and the Environment

     · @ SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry

docip: Indigenous Peoples' Centre for documentation, research and information

Indigenous @ Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

     Bibliography

Insitute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) @ Northern Arizona University (NAU)

International Society of Ethnobiology

Native Nations Institute

     Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance

Tallgrass Institute

Yellowhead Institute @ Toronto Metropolitan University


NGOs & networks

Canadian Mountain Network

Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership [Canada]

Cultural Survival

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC)

Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA)

     · “...a network of Indigenous researchers, data practitioners, and policy activists advocating for

       Indigenous Data Sovereignty within their nation-states and at an international level. GIDA

       welcomes the participation of Indigenous data users, networks, community groups, information

       and communications technologies providers, researchers, policymakers, planners and businesses

       that share our aim. The aim of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance is to progress International

       Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance in order to advance Indigenous

       control of Indigenous Data.”

Honor the Earth

Illuminative

Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Peoples’ Global Partnership on Climate Change, Forests and Sustainable Development (ELATIA)

Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) [USA]

International Land and Forest Tenure Facility

     · See Tenure Facility below

International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)

     · “...an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean, Arctic

       and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the

       recognition and protection of their Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures, Sacred Lands and Waters”

International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

     · “...a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending

       Indigenous Peoples’ rights.”

Land is Life

     · “...a diverse, Indigenous-led, international coalition working to advance the self-deterination

       and collective rights of Indigenous peoples."

Minority Rights Group International

     World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

Native Organizers Alliance

NDN Collective

     · “...an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing,

       activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating

       sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.”

     · Climate Justice

Oakland Institute

Reconciling Ways of Knowing society

Rights + Resources Initiative (RRI)

SIRGE Coalition (Securing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Green Economy Coalition)

     Guide On Free, Prior And Informed Consent

Society for Threatened Peoples (STP)

Tebtebba: Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education

Tenure Facility

     · “...a non-profit organisation that provides grants to secure the rights of Indigenous Peoples and

       local communities to their lands and forests, thereby strengthening their communities and  

       reducing global climate change and poverty in forest areas in the world.”

Water Protector Legal Collective

Wise Ancestors

Wretched of the Earth


General & global Indigenous institutions