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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.
Borneo dams chief under media scrutiny
The CEO of the company overseeing a massive dam project on Penan tribal land in the Malaysian part of Borneo has come under scrutiny in his native Norway over violations of Indigenous rights.
New Aboriginal community offers glimmer of hope
A group of Alyawarr Aborigines have abandoned their central Australian settlement, and set up a new community at a place called Honeymoon Bore.
Dongria Kondh tribe hold mountain festival and vow to stop Vedanta's mine
The Dongria Kondh tribe in India this weekend held their annual festival of worship on the top of their sacred mountain, which UK company Vedanta Resources is determined to mine for aluminium ore.
Bangladesh: Tribal people killed and villages burnt in army and settler attack
Reliable sources report that at least six Jumma tribal people were killed, and hundreds of houses burnt to the ground, in an attack by soldiers and settlers on tribal villages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh on Saturday.