19th April is Brazil's Indian Day, yet the Brazilian government may end up with egg on its face when the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, now in session in Geneva, discusses indigenous issues on 22 and 23 April.
The Gana and Gwi 'Bushmen', who have been evicted from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, are taking Botswana's government to court.
The Brazilian government's health authority has reversed an earlier decision to cut funding for health care for the Yanomami Indians.
Botswana has been condemned by the United Nations for its 'discrimination' against Bushman tribes.
A Canadian chief is today calling on an Indian court to prevent the recently contacted Jarawa tribe from being brought out of their forest home.
Survival International's advertising campaign has spread to Canada. A new advert appears today in the Ottawa Citizen highlighting the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Over the last ten years the Nuba tribes of central Sudan have been caught in the middle of the vicious civil war between the Islamist government of Sudan and the rebel movement based in the south of the country.
Survival, the worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples, launches an international advertising campaign on 2 March. The advertisements highlight the persecution of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana.