Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Advocacy Organizations

Note: There is a wide variety of organizations involved with human rights and indigenous peoples. Some of these organizations, along with their addresses, are listed below.

African Rights
11 Marshallsea Road
London SE1 1EP
United Kingdom

Alliance for Taiwan Aborigines
5F, 7 Cheng Kuong Road, Sec. 2
Yung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan

Amanaka'a Amazon Network
339 Lafayette St, Se. 8
New York, NY 10012

Amnesty International
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

Anthropology Resource Center
P.O. Box 15266
Washington, DC 20003-0266

Anti-Slavery International
180 Brixton Road
London SW9 6AT
United Kingdom

Arctic to Amazonia Alliance
P.O. Box 73
Strafford, VT 05072

Assembly of First Nations
Territory of Akwesasne
Hamiltons Island
Summerstown, Ontario
Canada

Associacion Cultural Sejekto
400 Mts Este Municipalidad de Moravia
San Jose
Costa Rica

Association for the Promotion of Batwa
BP 2472
Kigali, Rwanda

Association on American Indian Affairs
245 First Ave, Suite 1801
New York, NY 10016

Association Kunas Unidos por Napbuana via Espana
Edif. Domino
Piso 2, Office 31
Apdo, Postal 536
Panama 1, Panama

Association Cultural Sejekto
400 Mts. Este Municipalidad de Moravia
San Jose
Costa Rica

Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples
l6 Spadina Road
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2S7
Canada

Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
3650 Otis Parkway
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia

Center for Maaori Studies and Research
University of Waikato
Private Bag
Hamilton
New Zealand

Center for the Support of Native Lands
3240 Wilson Blvd, Room 220
Arlington, VA 22201-4406

Center for World Indigenous Studies
P.O. Box 2574
Olympia, WA 98507-2574

Centre Mocovi "Ialek Lav'a"
Casilla de Correo 36
2728 Melincue (Sante Fe)
Argentina

Commission on Human Rights
Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP)
United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017

Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organization of the Amazon Basin
Jiro Larco Herrera 1057
Magdalene de Mar
Lima 17, Peru

Cordillera Peoples' Alliance
Lock Box 596 GARCOM
Baguio
P.O. Box 7691, DAPO 1300
Pasay City, Philippines

Cultural Survival Canada
1 Nicholas Street, Suite 420
K1N 7B7 Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

Cultural Survival U.K.
4 Albion Place, Galena Road
Hammersmith
London W6 OLT
United Kingdom

Cultural Survival, Inc.
96 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Ditshwanelo-Botswana Center for Human Rights
Private Bag 00416
Gaborone
Botswana

Endangered Peoples Project
Box 1516 Station A
Vancouver, BC V6C 2P7
Canada

First Nations Development Institute
11917 Main Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22408

First People of the Kalahari
P.O. Box 173
Ghanzi, Botswana

Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics
Dept. of Political Science
Colorado University-Denver
Campus Box 190
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364

Global Justice Center on Rights Development
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208

Grand Council of the Crees
24 Bayswater Avenue
Ottawa, ONT KlY 2E4
Canada

Gwich'In Steering Committee
Box 202768
Anchorage, AK 99503

Human Rights Internet
1338 G Street S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003

Human Rights Watch
485 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6104

Human Rights Internet
c/o Human Rights Center
University of Ottawa
57 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, ONT K1N 6N5
Canada

Human Rights Committee for Non-Burman Nationalities
P.O. Box 118
Chiang Mai 50000
Thailand

Indian Law Resource Center
601 E Street, SE
Washington D.C. 20003

Indian Council of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
28 Mahadev Road
New Delhi 110001
India

Indigenous Peoples Center for Documentation, Research, and Information
Case Postale 101
CH-1211 Geneva 21
Switzerland

Indigenous Peoples Network Research Center
P.O. Box 364
Rochester, VT 05767

Indigenous Survival International
298 Elgin Street, Suite 105
K2P 1M3 Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

Indigenous World
P.O. Box 20522
P.A.B.T.
New York, NY 10129-0005

Interface Network, Inc.
Research Unit
Anchorage, AK 99503

International Indian Treaty Council
1259 Folsom
San Francisco, CA 94103

International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Labour Standards Department
1211 Geneva 22
Switzerland

International Institute of Human Rights
6 Place De Bordeaux
67000 Strassbourg
France

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
(IWGIA)

Classensgade 11E
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Kalahari Peoples Fund
3100 9th NW
Albuquerque, NM 87l07

Kalahari Support Group
c/o Keizersgracht 682
1017 ET Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Kuru Development Trust
P.O. Box 219
Ghanzi, Botswana

Minority Rights Group
29 Craven Street
London WC2N 5NG
England

Minority Rights Group
35 Claremont Ave, Box 4S
New York, NY 10027

Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights
CEC Office
Jangpura Extn
New Delhi 14
India

National Indian Youth Council
201 Hermosa Drive, N.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87108

National Aboriginal Conference
P.O. Box 259
Wooden, ACT 2606
Australia

National Congress of American Indians
900 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
1506 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80302

Native Lands Institute
Research and Policy Analysis
211 12th Street, N.W.
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Network on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Zurich
Freiensteinstrasse 5
CH-8032 Zurich
Switzerland

North Australia Research Unit
Australian National University
P.O. Box 41321
Casuarina NT 0811
Australia

Northern Justice Society
c/o School of Criminology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada

Nyae Nyae Farmers Cooperative
P.O. Box 9026
Windhoek, Namibia

OPM (Free Papua Movement)
PO Box 11582
The Hague
Netherlands

Pana Pana
International Miskito, Sumo, and Rama Support Group
General Delivery
Accord, NY 12404

People of the Earth
Friends of the Earth
1045 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

Physicians for Human Rights
Boylston Street, Suite #702
Boston, MA 02116-9442

Rainforest Action Network
450 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

Sahabat Alam Malaysia
(Sarawak)
SAM Office Marudi
PO Box 216
98058 Baram
Sarawak, Malaysia

Sarawak Peoples Campaign
Box 344, Station A
Vancouver, BC V6C 2M7
Canada

Science and Human Rights Program
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1333 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

Social Policy and Resettlement Division
The World Bank
1818 H Street
Washington, DC 20433

South and Meso-American Indian Information Center
P.O. Box 28703
Oakland, CA 94604
Stichting ReRun Produkties
Postbus 43021
1009 ZA
Amsterdam, Holland

Support Group for Indigenous Peoples
Breughelstraat 31-33
B-2018 Antwerpen
Belgium

Survival International
11-15 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QL
England

Tibetan Rights Campaign
Box 31966
Seattle, WA 98103

Tribal Research and Training Institute
Gujarat Vidyapith
Ashram, Amedabad
380014 India

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
Office of the General Secretary
Postbox 85878/2508 CN
The Hague
The Netherlands

Vicente Menchu Foundation
Box 5274
Berkeley, CA 94705

White Earth Land Recovery Project
P.O. Box 327
White Earth, MN 56591

Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA)
P.O. Box 77057
Washington, DC 20013-7057
202/882-1432
fax 202/882-8125
Contact: Zieba Shorish-Shamley, Ph.D.
zieba@aol.com

Workgroup of Indigenous Peoples
P.O. Box 4098
1009 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA)
P.O. Box 11778
Olympia
Windhoek
Namibia

World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP)
Suite C-812
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
Canada

World Rainforest Movement
8 Chapel Row
Chadlington, OX7 3NA
United Kingdom

World Wildlife Fund
Social Science and Economics
1250 Twenty Fourth St. NW
Washington, DC 20037

!Xuu and Khwe Trust
P.O. Box 1022
Stellenbosch 7599
South Africa

Yanomamo Survival Fund
P.O. Box 3684
Santa Barbara, CA 93105


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