Women’s and Indigenous peoples’ groups have urged the Malaysian government to release the findings of its investigation into claims that Penan women have been sexually abused by loggers operating on their land.
One hundred representatives of Indigenous peoples have signed a declaration calling on states to ratify ILO Convention 169 – the only international law for tribal peoples’ rights.
A law violating Indigenous peoples rights has been annulled by Colombia’s Constitutional Court.
Peru’s government is being urged to respect the only international law on tribal peoples after a series of complaints that it was failing to do so.
Four tribal Papuans are critically ill in hospital after police opened fire on demonstrators, injuring 11, at a rally on Monday in the West Papuan city of Nabire.
The Bangladeshi government has said it is taking steps to implement the peace accord made in 1997 with the Jumma tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Peru’s national Indigenous organisation, AIDESEP, has slammed a recent government meeting about new uncontacted tribes’ reserves.
A Survival campaigner has just returned from a trip to the Borneo rainforests to investigate the plight of the hunter-gatherer Penan tribe.