Stephen Corry (born 1951) is a British indigenous rights activist, best known for being the former CEO of

Survival International Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the collective rights of Indigenous, tribal and uncontacted peoples. The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal people ...

. In 1993, he became the chairman of the Free Tibet Campaign and remains on its board.

Biography

Stephen Corry was born in

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

in 1951. He won a scholarship to

Gresham's School Gresham's School is a private school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Baccalaureate schools in England. The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a f ...

and at 16 he left school with the desire to travel and learn other languages. In 1972, he founded together with Robin Hanbury-Tenison the organisation

. Influenced by his travels, and authors such as

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, he quit the

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, Jussieu, and volunteered. After becoming a member, Corry sought to go to Brazil to study the indigenous people there, but was asked to stay in London and do research. Stephen Corry later became Projects Director of Survival International. He had started his work with Survival with the ambitious intention of compiling a World Red Book of Threatened Peoples – parallel to the

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's " Red Book of Threatened Species", an idea which was proposed to him by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, while discussing his future role in Survival International. In 1974, he spent nine months in Colombia researching the situation of the indigenous tribal peoples and setting up several projects for funding by the Joint Projects Committee. On his return, in 1976, he published his report, "Towards Indian Self-determination in Colombia." From 1984 until 2021, he was Director-General of Survival International.

Awards

was awarded the

Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob vo ...

in 1989. Corry gave the acceptance speech.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Corry, Stephen Living people People educated at Gresham's School British anthropologists British human rights activists Indigenous rights activists Tibet freedom activists 1951 births

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