All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples is a group in the UK Parliament, chaired by Martin Horwood MP, that was founded in 2007.^[1] Its stated aim is to "raise parliamentary and public awareness of tribal peoples". The Group meets two or three times a year and one of its main objectives is to press for ratification of ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples.^[2]^[3] The British international indigenous rights organization Survival International works as its secretariat, and also funds occasional group receptions and events. APPG for Tribal Peoples is composed of over 30 cross-party MPs and peers, and it is headquartered in London.

Objectives

The constitution sets the aims for the APPG as:^[4]

To raise Parliamentary and public awareness of tribal peoples.
To promote action inside and outside of Parliament in support of tribal peoples.
To ensure that government does all it can to help threatened tribal peoples.

Members

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrat

SNP

Michael Weir MP

Independent Labour

Clare Short MP

Speaker

John Bercow MP

References

External links

APPG for Tribal Peoples - Official Website
Article on a meeting hosted by APPG for Tribal Peoples

Indigenous and minority rights

Rights	Ancestral domain Free, prior and informed consent Intellectual property Land rights Language Self-determination Traditional knowledge Treaty rights

Governmental organizations	African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Arctic Council Bureau of Indian Affairs Council of Indigenous Peoples Fundação Nacional do Índio Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (Philippines) United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Non-governmental and political organizations	Amazon Watch Assembly of First Nations Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin Cultural Survival Friends of Peoples Close to Nature Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs National Indigenous Organization of Colombia Native American Rights Fund Survival International Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Zapatista Army of National Liberation (more ...)

Issues	Civilizing mission Colonialism Internal colonialism Settler colonialism Cultural appropriation Dakota Access Pipeline protests Discovery doctrine Homeland Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples Bantustan American Indian reservation Indian reserve Ranchería Manifest destiny Plastic shaman Rainbow Warriors Two-Spirit

Legal representation	Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007

Historical cases	2009 Peruvian political crisis Chiapas conflict Depopulation of Diego Garcia High Arctic relocation Indian removal Mapuche conflict Oka Crisis Residential Schools Canada New Zealand South Africa United States Rubber boom San controversy Stolen Generations

Human Rights Indigenous rights • Minority rights

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples

Objectives

Members

See also

References

External links