The Dongria Kondh tribe in India this weekend held their annual festival of worship on the top of their sacred mountain, which UK company Vedanta Resources is determined to mine for aluminium ore.
Reliable sources report that at least six Jumma tribal people were killed, and hundreds of houses burnt to the ground, in an attack by soldiers and settlers on tribal villages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh on Saturday.
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has recommended that the Endorois tribe in Kenya be given back its land.
A global letter-writing campaign to protect the lives of uncontacted Indians in Paraguay has been launched by Survival.
Survival International welcomes the news that the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is selling its shares in Vedanta Resources due to concerns over the company's human rights record. Two other shareholders, the Marlborough Ethical Fund and Millfield House
Over 400 Bushmen were denied the right to vote in Botswana’s 2009 general election, with five Bushman communities inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve omitted from the electoral register.
Viktor Kaisiepo, the dedicated and charismatic Papuan activist, has died aged 61 in the Netherlands.
The Indonesian government has banned a book on the repression of human rights in Papua.