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Survival is the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide.
Survival has supporters in 82 countries. It works for tribal peoples` rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. We also offer tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. We work closely with local indigenous organisations, and focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.
We believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change. Its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.
Our educational programmes aimed at people in the `west` or `north` set out to demolish the myth that tribal peoples are relics, destined to perish through `progress`. We promote respect for their cultures and explain the contemporary relevance of their way of life.
Survival`s educational work takes various forms, both inside and outside schools, for children and for adults. We provide free educational materials for teachers and students, give talks and lessons about tribal peoples in schools, and inform the interested general public through public talks, books, conferences, photographic exhibitions and so on.
We provide a platform for tribal representatives to talk directly to the companies which are invading their land. We also disseminate information to tribal peoples, using both community radio and the written word - telling them how other tribes are faring and warning them about the threats posed by multinationals. In this way, we give them access to the information they need to make their voices heard.
Survival also plays a major role in ensuring that humanitarian, self-help, educational and medical projects with tribal peoples receive proper funding. A good example is the Yanomami medical fund, which succeeded in virtually eliminating malaria in some Indian areas.
Our campaigns are not only directed at governments, but at companies, banks, extremist missionaries, guerrilla armies, narrow minded conservationists or anyone else who violates tribal peoples` rights. Survival was the first organisation to draw attention to the destructive effects of World Bank projects - now recognised as a major cause of suffering in many poor countries. As well as letter-writing - which generates thousands of protests - we use many other tactics: from vigils at embassies, to direct lobbying of those in positions of power; from putting cases at the United Nations, to advising on the drafting of international law; from informing tribes of their legal rights, to organising headline-grabbing stunts. All our work is rooted in direct personal contact with hundreds of tribal communities.
Survival has supporters in 82 countries. It works for tribal peoples` rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. We also offer tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. We work closely with local indigenous organisations, and focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.
We believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change. Its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.
Our educational programmes aimed at people in the `west` or `north` set out to demolish the myth that tribal peoples are relics, destined to perish through `progress`. We promote respect for their cultures and explain the contemporary relevance of their way of life.
Survival`s educational work takes various forms, both inside and outside schools, for children and for adults. We provide free educational materials for teachers and students, give talks and lessons about tribal peoples in schools, and inform the interested general public through public talks, books, conferences, photographic exhibitions and so on.
We provide a platform for tribal representatives to talk directly to the companies which are invading their land. We also disseminate information to tribal peoples, using both community radio and the written word - telling them how other tribes are faring and warning them about the threats posed by multinationals. In this way, we give them access to the information they need to make their voices heard.
Survival also plays a major role in ensuring that humanitarian, self-help, educational and medical projects with tribal peoples receive proper funding. A good example is the Yanomami medical fund, which succeeded in virtually eliminating malaria in some Indian areas.
Our campaigns are not only directed at governments, but at companies, banks, extremist missionaries, guerrilla armies, narrow minded conservationists or anyone else who violates tribal peoples` rights. Survival was the first organisation to draw attention to the destructive effects of World Bank projects - now recognised as a major cause of suffering in many poor countries. As well as letter-writing - which generates thousands of protests - we use many other tactics: from vigils at embassies, to direct lobbying of those in positions of power; from putting cases at the United Nations, to advising on the drafting of international law; from informing tribes of their legal rights, to organising headline-grabbing stunts. All our work is rooted in direct personal contact with hundreds of tribal communities.