Threats to Peru’s uncontacted tribes prompt emergency appeal to Inter-American Commission
An Indigenous organization in Peru has appealed to the Americas’ top human rights body.
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Uncontacted tribe under threat after Senator’s secret plot to open up their territory
Brazilian Senator is plotting to open up the Ituna Itatá Indigenous territory.
Brazil: 439,000 signature petition to be handed in to Congress for Yanomami Covid campaign
The "MinersOutCovidOut" petition calls for the immediate expulsion of 20,000 illegal miners from inside the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
Top missionary official in Brazil forced out for second time
An evangelical missionary has been forced from his job as head of the Uncontacted Tribes Unit in Brazil.
WWF releases report on its human rights abuses
WWF has released a report it commissioned on its human rights abuses in the Congo Basin, India and Nepal.
Government complicity and neglect fuels lethal coronavirus among Yanomami and Ye’kwana
An explosive new report released this week exposes a humanitarian crisis rapidly unfolding in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory.
Unique event: Indigenous voices heard for first time in EU debate on conservation
It’s a first: Indigenous people can tell EU policy makers their thoughts on conservation.
Revealed: Uncontacted tribes’ territories burning as Amazon fires spread
The survival of several uncontacted tribes is now at risk after fires were set inside their territories.