Guarani suicides on increase, says new report
A report released this week reveals that the suicide rate among Brazil’s Guarani-Kaiowá Indians is on the increase.
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Landmark court ruling could help tribes stop deforestation and oil palm plantations
A landmark ruling made by the Malaysian courts this week could allow tribes on the island of Borneo to stop logging and oil palm plantations destroying their forests.
Perenco and armed forces break Indigenous blockade
A gunboat belonging to Peru’s armed forces has broken through an Indian river blockade in the northern Peruvian Amazon.
Farmers leave Indian land
After years of conflict and tension, rice farmers are finally leaving the Indigenous territory known as Raposa-Serra do Sol (the Land of the Fox and Mountain of the Sun) in northern Brazil.
Ranchers seek license to destroy uncontacted tribes’ land
A Brazilian cattle-ranching company is seeking permission from Paraguay’s government to destroy forest inhabited by one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
Government determined to exploit uncontacted Indians’ land
Peru’s government has shown its determination to permit work on uncontacted tribes’ land by passing a law declaring oil exploitation in northern Peru a ‘national necessity.’
Perenco chairman meets president as Indians protest across Amazon
The chairman of Anglo-French oil company Perenco has told the Peruvian president his company will invest $2 billion in the country, as Indians protest against the invasion of their territories by oil companies.
Controversial mine on Bushman land shelved as recession hits diamond industry
The planned diamond mine at the centre of an international controversy over the forced relocation of Botswana’s Bushmen has been shelved due to the global recession.