Survival International
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| Founded | 1969 |
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| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Focus | Indigenous rights |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Method | Media attention, education, mass letter-writing, research, lobbying |
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Key people
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison, President Stephen Corry, Director |
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Revenue
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£1,624,935 (2015) |
| Website | survivalinternational.org |
Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous 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 the perceived risks that tribes face from the actions of 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 (DPI) at the United Nations and in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). 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.
Survival International was founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday Times Magazine highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. In 1971, the fledgling organisation, known as the Primitive People's Fund, visited Brazil to observe the Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) government agency responsible for tribal peoples there. Survival International incorporated as an English company in 1972, and registered as a charity in 1974. According to the autobiography of its first chairman, the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, while travelling with the ethnobotanist Dr Conrad Gorinsky in the Amazon in 1968,
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