Members of the Penan tribe in Borneo have written to the CEO of Europe’s foremost hotel chain, ACCOR, asking him to end his company’s cooperation with the loggers who are destroying their forests.
Almost three quarters of a million barrels of oil seized from Anglo-French company Perenco will be auctioned by Ecuador’s government.
Several hundred tribespeople today staged a protest against FTSE-100 company Vedanta, as it bids massively to expand its controversial aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Orissa.
A group of Brazilian Indians have launched a petition against a draft law that would facilitate the theft of Indigenous children by evangelical missionaries.
A large number of Indians have blockaded one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the Napo River, in response to the violation of their rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
Women’s and Indigenous peoples’ groups have urged the Malaysian government to release the findings of its investigation into claims that Penan women have been sexually abused by loggers operating on their land.
One hundred representatives of Indigenous peoples have signed a declaration calling on states to ratify ILO Convention 169 – the only international law for tribal peoples’ rights.
A law violating Indigenous peoples rights has been annulled by Colombia’s Constitutional Court.