Tribal representatives at the UN conference on climate change in Poznan, Poland, have slammed the proceedings for excluding Indigenous voices and refusing to recognise tribal peoples’ rights to the forests they live in and protect.
Two years after the historic court victory that affirmed the Kalahari Bushmen’s right to live and hunt on their land, Botswana’s President Ian Khama has told the Bushmen that their hunting way of life is an ‘archaic fantasy’.
Indians across Brazil are celebrating today as the majority of judges in the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Indigenous land rights in a key case. Indian representatives have called the decision a ‘great victory’.
Eight members of the Onge tribe in the Andaman Islands, India, have died and 15 more are in hospital after drinking from a container which washed ashore on their island reserve.
The Botswana government has given its approval to a controversial diamond mine on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen – on the condition that the mining company Gem Diamonds does not provide the Bushmen with water.
The 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated tomorrow – but only 20 countries have signed up to the international law on tribal peoples, whose rights are routinely violated.
Indigenous people from the Amazon state of Roraima are gathering in the Brazilian capital Brasilia today to await the Supreme Court's ruling on a key land rights case.
The award of the ‘Indian Entrepreneur of the Year’ prize to Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal has been met with derision from the Dongria Kondh tribe, whose sacred mountain Vedanta plans to destroy.