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Founded | 1969 |
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Type | International NGO |
Focus | Indigenous rights |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Method | Media attention, education, mass letter-writing, research, lobbying |
Key people | Professor James Wood, Chair, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, President Caroline Pearce, Director |
Revenue | £1,175,361 (2022) |
Award(s) | Right Livelihood Award |
Website | www |
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Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the rights of Indigenous and/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples.
The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples' desires to keep their ancestral lands. Survival International calls these peoples "some of the most vulnerable on earth", and aims to eradicate what it calls "misconceptions" used to justify violations of human rights. It also aims to publicize harm caused to tribes by corporations and governments. Survival International states that it aims to help foster tribal people's self-determination.
Survival International is in association with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. To ensure freedom of action, Survival accepts no government funding. It is a founding member and a signatory organization of the International NGO Accountability Charter (INGO Accountability Charter). Survival has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, and San Francisco.