The army and police in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, have arrested at least nine Jumma tribal leaders this month after planting firearms in their homes. Some of those arrested have also been tortured.
Sixteen members of the Guayabero tribe in Colombia have been injured after a land mine exploded on their reserve.
The Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA), the UKs professional body for anthropologists, has condemned the use of terms like stone age and primitive to describe tribal and Indigenous peoples alive today.
Indian officials were questioned by the UN on Monday about Indias protection of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands.
The Brazilian government has discovered signs of some of the worlds last uncontacted tribes living near the border with Peru.
A copy of the landmark ruling made by the Botswana High Court in the case of the Kalahari Bushmen against the Botswana government is now available online.
Two children from the Guarani Kaiowá tribe have died of starvation, and several dozen are being treated in hospital for severe malnutrition.
Members of a nomadic tribe who had been preventing loggers from bulldozing their rainforest home for two years have had their blockade dismantled by Malaysian police.