
Court victory for one Bushman family
The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Two Arhuaco children have been killed after playing with unexploded shells left by the Colombian army.
President Chavez of Venezuela has expelled the fundamentalist American missionary group New Tribes Mission from the country.
Sixty-five Nukak Indians have been displaced by armed conflict on their land between right-wing paramilitary groups, left-wing guerrillas and the Colombian army.
Twenty-five protestors from Survival International were bundled out of the Oxford Union by burly security guards on Friday for wearing offensive t-shirts and asking offensive questions.
A logger operating illegally in the territory of isolated Waorani Indians has been found dead.
Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police in a series of incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.