Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Children
Climate Change
Criminal Justice
Decolonization
Education
Environment
Extreme poverty
Family
Food
Habitat
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
International Law
Justice
Least Developed Countries
Minority Rights
Peace and Security
Population
Refugees
Religion
Social Development
Sustainable Development
Torture
Trade and Development
Violence
Water
Women/gender Equality
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Indigenous women
Violence against women
Social Development:
Conflict
Indigenous issues
Poverty
Social policy
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Education
Forests
Health
Human settlements
Land management
Poverty
Sustainable development for Africa
NEPAD:
Human Development
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
Brazil
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Ensure environmental sustainability
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1977 |
| Organizational structure: |
Approximately 350 missionaries, forming 120 teams, live on a day to day basis with indigenous people throughout the entire country. They are laymen and religious people who seek with their presence of solidarity, commitment and testimony to place themselves at the service of these people’s lives. To articulate, assist and guide these missionaries and to support the fight of indigenous people to guarantee their rights, Cimi is organized into 11 Regional Offices distributed throughout the country plus a National Secretariat located in the federal capital Brasília. Cimi’s maximum authority is the General Assembly which meets every two years. Its directorship is composed of a Presidency (President, Vice-President and two Secretaries) and 11 regional Coordinators. Through its National Secretariat and Regionals, Cimi offers the missionaries, indigenous peoples and their organizations support and assistance with legal, theological, and anthropological matters and with communication, training, education, health and documentation. Cimi maintains a corporate website and publishes on a monthly basis “the Porantim” newspaper, specialized in the indigenous cause. DIMENSIONS OF CIMI ACTION LAND: Cimi’s priority action is to support indigenous peoples and communities in their fight to recuperate, demarcate and guarantee the integrality of their territories. Land is a condition for life and full cultural fulfillment of every indigenous people. INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT: Throughout these five hundred years, indigenous people have found creative and diverse ways to resist oppression and attempts of extermination. In the last three decades, numerous forms of organization, articulations and mobilizations have developed which today constitute the Indigenous Movement. Cimi acts as a partner to the fight of the indigenous movement by providing information, discussing possibilities and courses of action and supporting their initiatives. ALLIANCES: It is fundamental to consolidate alliances with the view of building a new social order, based on solidarity, respect for human dignity and ethnic and cultural diversity. To ensure the conditions for indigenous people to gain their autonomy, Cimi aims, through its action, to establish alliances with sectors of civil society, Latin-American organizations, solidarity groups and organizations and international cooperation. TRAINING: Cimi understands training as an integral process, constructed collectively and based on social practice. EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SELF-SUSTAINABILITY: Cimi’s action in these three dimensions is based on recognizing and valuing the characteristic ways that each people conceive and build their lives. It is imperative to know, profoundly comprehend and radically respect their different visions of the world, thus building with Indigenous Peoples, and from their own systems, differentiated actions for health care, specific schools and proposals for self-sustainability. INTERCULTURAL AND INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOG: Cimi directs its action towards the prospect of establishing a mutually respectful dialog, based on equality among peoples and cultures. Inter-religious dialog presupposes the profound respect for the diverse concepts of sacredness, origin and meaning of human life and the valorization of the multiple ways of ritualizing faith and nourishing one’s own beliefs. INDIANS IN URBAN CENTERS: The intense and constant pressures upon indigenous cultures and territories result in constant migrations of indigenous families or even entire peoples. And with it, the need to better understand this reality: determine the motives that push some indigenous families out of their traditional areas and initiate a systematic dialog with them, with the view of guaranteeing their rights and articulating their struggles to the broader indigenous issue. |
| Number and type of members: |
Cimi has 350 members. Members of Cimi are the laymen and religious people who act directly with indigenous people; the bishopswhose dioceses and prelacies have indigenous communities; the religious superiors of the missionaries who work with indigenous; and the bishop responsible for the missionary line of work of the CNBB. |
| Funding structure: |
Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
Funds from Religious Institutions
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Fundraising campaigns
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