Police have launched a search for a fraudulent lawyer who sold false land titles inside the territory of the isolated Uru Eu Wau Wau tribe. As a result of his actions, hundreds of people poured in to the Indians' land.
The Bangladesh army has evicted 750 Mru families from their ancestral land in the remote villages of Bandarban Hill District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
The authorities on the Andaman Islands have begun a training programme for local police and welfare staff charged with protecting the Jarawa tribe.
A BBC film to be broadcast on Thursday 1 February documents an expedition to make first contact with an isolated tribe in West Papua - and asks whether such people really exist. Survival estimates that approximately 107 uncontacted tribes exist worldwide
The isolated Enawene Nawe tribe has spoken out against a series of dams which could destroy their livelihood.
In recent weeks large numbers of Indonesian soldiers, including special forces, have been deployed to the Punkak Jaya region of West Papua, causing an estimated 5,000 tribespeople to flee into the jungle.
A group of forty Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve this weekend, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps.
A gunman shot dead a 70 year old Guarani woman, Kuretê Lopez, on 9 January in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.