To mark the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, Survival is accusing the makers of a controversial film of inciting racial hatred against Brazilian Indians.
Survival confirms that some of the last uncontacted Indians are fleeing from Peru to Brazil to escape illegal logging
Representatives from one hundred Indigenous communities in northern Peru have said they will not allow Brazilian company Petrobras to invade their land to explore for oil.
A leading government minister has rejected the election of an Indigenous man as Paraguay’s new Minister of Indigenous Affairs.
A desperate plea for the protection of uncontacted Indians’ land in western Paraguay has been issued by nine local organisations after round-table talks sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme.
The French company tipped to transform Peru’s economy is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighbouring Ecuador, it has been announced.
Only four members of the whole UN voted against the Declaration on Indigenous Rights in 2007: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Three are members of the Commonwealth.
An international commission has urged Bangladesh’s new government to demilitarize the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and return stolen land to its tribal owners, the Jummas.