John Pilger and BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson have urged fellow journalists not to use terms such as stone age and primitive to describe contemporary tribal peoples, in a letter published in the Financial Times.
As the Gana and Gwi Bushmens case against the Botswana government restarted yesterday, government witness Kathleen Alexander was unable to support her claim that the Bushmen's livestock were causing diseases in wild animals.
The Gana and Gwi Bushmen return to court tomorrow with their case against the government of Botswana, 160 days after the government sealed off their reserve to the outside world.
The Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, have killed two fishermen who had illegally approached their island.
A new campaign launched today aims to end the portrayal of tribal people in the press as primitive and Stone Age.
At least twenty Tupinikim and Guarani Indians were seriously wounded last week when 120 federal police attempted to evict them from their land on behalf of the company Aracruz Cellulose.
Brazilian Indians have called on President Lula to dismiss the countrys top Indian Affairs official Mércio Pereira Gomes, who is visiting London this week, after he implied that Indians already have enough land.
Aymara Indian Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia today, making him that country's first-ever Indigenous president.