IWGIA

IWGIA is an international human rights organisation promoting, protecting and defending indigenous peoples’ rights. Since 1968, the organisation has supported the fight for indigenous peoples’ rights. We work through a global network of indigenous peoples’ organisations and international human rights bodies. We promote the recognition, respect and implementation of indigenous peoples’ rights to land, cultural integrity and development on their own terms. We foster change by documenting indigenous peoples’ conditions and the human rights breaches they experience, thus contributing to global knowledge and awareness of indigenous peoples’ situations; supporting indigenous peoples’ own organisations to act and their capacities to access human rights bodies; advocating for change in decision-making processes at local, regional and international level, including active engagement in international networks.