Botswana Bushmen's plea to De Beers and BHP Billiton
Botswana's Gana and Gwi 'Bushmen' are asking De Beers and BHP Billiton not to mine on their land until their rights to return to it and live on it in peace are respected.
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Richtersveld case highlights racial discrimination in Botswana
The judgment earlier this month in the Richtersveld case highlights once more the issue of racial discrimination in Botswana.
Merafhe admits 'We put these people... where we want them to be'
In an astonishing slip, Botswana's Foreign Minister last week admitted that his government had relocated the Bushmen to 'where we want them to be.'
South African court rules 'Indigenous peoples own their own land'
On 14 October 2003, in one of the most historic court judgments ever made in favour of Indigenous peoples, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that an Indigenous people had both communal land ownership and mineral rights over their territory.
Songs from a forest in danger
These beautiful sounds come from a people whose way of life is threatened with destruction.
10-year-old is latest victim in wave of Indian murders
Killing of South American Indians escalates
Helpful letter from the European Council
Five European Heads of Mission [Ambassadors] to Botswana recently produced a report on the Bushmen's relocation. All Survival's attempts to see a copy of this report have been rebuffed.
Supreme Court backs Wichí
The Wichí Indians of northern Argentina have won a resounding victory after a seven-year legal battle with the province of Salta.