The Botswana government has banned the Kalahari Bushmen from using their own water as UN World Water Day approaches on 22 March. A Bushman leader is travelling to London this week to protest against the ban.
In a devastating report India has been urged by the UN to protect the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands
The army and police in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, arrested two Jumma tribal leaders this week, adding to the growing number of arrests since a state of emergency was declared in January.
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.