Thousands of people rallied yesterday against billionaire Anil Agarwal’s mining company, Vedanta Resources, which wants to mine a sacred mountain in India for aluminium ore.
Peru’s Indigenous affairs department, INDEPA, has announced it will carry out an overflight of an uncontacted tribes’ reserve in the remote Amazon.
Five members of the Awá tribe have been brutally murdered in south-west Colombia.
The UK's Liberal Democrats pledged to sign ILO Convention 169 (ILO 169) on the rights of Indigenous and tribal peoples at the party's annual conference last week.
A report launched today by human rights group Survival International shows that tribal peoples across the world are at greatest risk from swine flu, as many have poor immunity and suffer chronic underlying illnesses.
Pressure is mounting on the Tanzanian government following the recent violent evictions of Maasai from their land in Loliondo, Northern Tanzania, to make way for the hunting company, Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC).
Indigenous people from south-east Peru are suing Repsol-YPF and US company Hunt Oil for their plans to explore for oil on their land.
A meeting of bankers, NGOs and lawyers took place in London this week to discuss concerns over British company Vedanta Resources’ mining operations.