Global Alliance of Territorial Communities

The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) is a political platform of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities united to defend Mother Earth for all humanity’s present and future benefit. We guarantee our legitimacy and representativeness thanks to democratic processes, ranging from the community to the plurinational level. Our alliance represents 35 million people living in forest territories from 24 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We are defenders of over 958 million hectares of land. The five organizations that make us are the Indonesian Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipielago (AMAN); the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB); the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB); the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA); and the Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPALEAC).