Colombian leaders in London to launch ‘campaign against extinction’
Two Indigenous Colombian leaders are on a European tour to launch an international campaign aimed at protecting at least eighteen tribes facing the ‘imminent risk of extinction’.
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Stars line up in West End to celebrate tribal peoples
Survival International is proud to announce ‘WE ARE ONE – a celebration of tribal peoples’, a fundraising evening in aid of Survival International created and directed by Mark Rylance, on Sunday 18 April at the Apollo Theatre.
Peru bars oil companies from uncontacted tribes’ reserve
A reserve inhabited by uncontacted tribes in the remote Peruvian Amazon can no longer be explored by oil and gas companies.
Guatemala adopts Indigenous rights into Constitution
The Constitutional Court of Guatemala has adopted ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and tribal peoples into the country’s Constitution.
UN report condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen
Report demands ‘urgent’ action by government over water
Calm returns to Chittagong Hill Tracts, but fear remains
Calm is returning to the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh after last week’s attacks on the Jumma tribal people.
Yanomami fear for their lives as miners invade their land
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has made an urgent appeal for support as the Yanomami territory in northern Brazil is being invaded by gold-miners.
‘Open the dam and let the water flow’ – desperate plea from Omo Valley
Many tribal people in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia are starving as the region is in the grip of a drought and the river’s annual flood has failed.