
Torture victims now total seven
Seven Bushmen have been tortured this month by wildlife officials in Kaudwane, a relocation camp close to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Seven Bushmen have been tortured this month by wildlife officials in Kaudwane, a relocation camp close to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
The isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands, who hit the headlines for surviving the 26 December tsunami intact, are now in danger of being wiped out completely by settlers invading their land.
Prominent feminist Gloria Steinem and more than thirty protesters last night picketed the opening of De Beers's first store in America.
Three Bushmen have been severely tortured by wildlife officials on suspicion of hunting to feed their families.
Celebrities will this Wednesday 22 June (5.30-9pm) be urged by protesters from human rights organisation Survival International not to cross their picket line at the opening of the first De Beers store in the USA (703 Fifth Avenue, New York).
Botswana's President Mogae has said that he decided to deport Australian Professor Ken Good as a 'threat to national security' over his links with Survival International.
The judges in the Bushmen court case have ordered that the whole court will fly to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, to establish whether preparations for diamond mining are taking place there.
Two Papuan activists, Filep Karma and Yusuk Pakage, have been sentenced to 15 and 10 years in prison respectively for raising the Papuan flag on 'Papuan independence day', December 1st, 2004.