The United Nations has released a report highlighting the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples, describing their situation as ‘critical’, and urging that land rights are crucial for their cultural and physical survival.
A Brazilian company bulldozing an uncontacted tribe’s land in Paraguay has won Survival International’s ‘Greenwashing Award 2010’.
Director James Cameron received his Golden Globes awards for ‘Avatar’ yesterday, and revealed one of the central ideas of the film.
One year since the Bangladesh government promised finally to halt the persecution of the country’s Indigenous people, reports are emerging of new abuses.
Survival has launched an ad campaign exposing the Botswana government’s malicious treatment of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen, the country’s oldest inhabitants.
Peru’s government has announced it will hold an auction for oil and gas concessions towards the end of April.
An expedition conducted by FUNAI (Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Department) has confirmed the existence of a group of uncontacted Indians in Maranhão state in the eastern Amazon.
Two Yanomami men have contracted the swine flu virus, and it is suspected that a ten year old boy from the same community has also been infected.