Tribe brings warning to London with help of celebrities
Human rights campaigner, Bianca Jagger, and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy lent their support for a protest today outside the AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources.
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Victory for Awá nomads
A Brazilian federal judge has ruled that ranchers and colonists illegally occupying the Awá Indian reserve must leave the territory within 180 days.
Guarani land rights – ‘a question of honour’
The president of the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department, FUNAI, has declared that resolving Guarani land rights in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul is ‘a question of honour’.
Vedanta blocked by tribal protests as Indigenous resistance spreads worldwide
Repeated protests by tribal people in Orissa, India, have blocked the mining plans of one of Britain’s biggest companies, leading to a costly delay.
'We Are One: A celebration of tribal peoples' - new book published this autumn
Unique collection of Indigenous wisdom, stunning photos and writing from international authors, poets, journalists and others.
Control post to protect uncontacted tribes
Peru’s government has announced that a control post protecting uncontacted tribes will start operating next month.
Urgent appeal to UN to stop mine
Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ mine in the Niyamgiri Hills, Orissa.
Loggers arrested after invading uncontacted tribes' land
Eighteen illegal loggers have been arrested on land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Ecuador, according to the El Comercio newspaper.