Botswanas longest-running court case, brought by the Bushmen against the Botswana government, concluded on Tuesday. Over 10% of the 243 applicants have died in the government resettlement camps since the case was filed.
A group of top Indian officials flew to the Andaman Islands on Friday, at the end of the week in which news broke of a disease epidemic among the isolated Jarawa tribe.
Forty-two children from the isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands have been hit by disease in the last three weeks, in an epidemic which could wipe them out.
The isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean have been hit by a measles epidemic which could wipe them out. Seven Jarawa children have been admitted to hospital.
During cross-examination by the lawyer for the Bushmen, the main government official in charge of the 2002 relocation of hundreds of Bushmen claimed he could remember almost nothing about the exercise.
The Botswana governments lawyer claimed in court this week that the Gana and Gwi Bushmens home in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) belonged to the government, and that it could decide who was allowed to live there.
Mebegokre Kayapó Indians have vowed to oppose the building of five dams along the Xingu River in Amazonia. Two hundred Kayapó met recently to discuss the dams, which they fear will have a devastating impact on their land.
The Peruvian government has created a new reserve in the Amazon rainforest, protecting the lands of the isolated Isconahua Indians and several other Indigenous tribes.