Indigenous peoples and their supporters in Brazil have launched an urgent petition calling on Brazil’s Supreme Court to uphold the ratification of Raposa-Serra do Sol, an Indigenous territory in the Amazon region, northern Brazil. Link to www.makunaimagri
Indonesia's National Commission on Human RIghts is currently investigating human rights violations and atrocities in West Papua.
A group of NGOs is urging the Indonesian government not to permit any more oil palm plantations in West Papua.
Colombia’s last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, the Nukak, is in ‘imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction’, according to the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PTT), which investigates and tries human rights violations around the world.
Five scientists writing in a peer-reviewed journal have called for the ‘outright protection’ of lands belonging to uncontacted tribes in Peru and other countries in the western Amazon.
Colombia’s last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, the Nukak, is in ‘imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction’, according to the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PTT), which investigates and tries human rights violations around the world.
A West Papuan man was shot and killed by Indonesian police on August 9, the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples.
Survival International has launched its 2008 Raffle in aid of the Penan and other threatened tribal peoples around the world.