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==Structure and aims==
Survival International works for tribal peoples' rights on three complementary levels: education, advocacy and campaigns. It also offers tribal people a platform to address the world, while connecting with local Indigenous organisations, with focus on tribal peoples under more urgent threat from contact with the outside world.<ref name="survivalinternational"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook |last=F. Kabasakal Arat |first=Zehra |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2006 |isbn=1-85109-762-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/humanrightsworld0000kaba }}</ref> The educational programs are aimed at people in the Western world, aiming at "demolishing the myth that tribal people are relics, destined to perish through 'progress'". Survival seeks to promote respect for their cultures and explain their relevance today in preserving their way of life.<ref>{{cite book |title=Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines |last=MacClancy |first=Jeremy |publisher=University Of Chicago Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-226-50013-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/exoticnomoreanth00macc }}</ref>

{{quote|"If we want to help societies our first job is to listen, rather than to dictate what we think they need, and we must be prepared to be surprised.  This is not just to do with remote tribal peoples: it's of vital relevance to all in a world where ideas of multiculturalism are misunderstood and under attack and where some increasingly want to force their views on others."|[[Stephen Corry]], former Director of Survival International, April 2007<ref name=survivalinternationalleadersmessage>{{cite web |url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/2338 |title=Leaders back Survival's message |work=Survival International |date=10 April 2007 |access-date=31 October 2009 |archive-date=29 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029192542/http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/2338 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

Survival has supporters in 82 countries. Its materials are published in many languages throughout the world. It is a registered charity in the [[United Kingdom]] and the equivalent in [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], and the [[United States]], and can receive tax-free donations in the [[Netherlands]].

Survival refuses government funding, depending exclusively on public support, in order to ensure freedom of action.<ref name="survivalinternational"/> All the people sent into the field belong to Survival International staff, none are sponsored volunteers or visitors of any kind. Overseas projects are carried and managed by tribes themselves.<ref name=survivalinternationalwork>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/info/work|title=Jobs|first=Survival|last=International|website=www.survivalinternational.org|access-date=20 May 2017|archive-date=4 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604073359/http://www.survivalinternational.org/info/work|url-status=live}}</ref>