Control post to protect uncontacted tribes
Peru’s government has announced that a control post protecting uncontacted tribes will start operating next month.
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Urgent appeal to UN to stop mine
Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ mine in the Niyamgiri Hills, Orissa.
Loggers arrested after invading uncontacted tribes' land
Eighteen illegal loggers have been arrested on land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Ecuador, according to the El Comercio newspaper.
Two more Indigenous leaders seek asylum
Two more of Peru’s most prominent Indigenous leaders have been forced to seek asylum after orders for their arrest were issued by a judge following violent clashes in the Peruvian Amazon last month.
Tourism threat to recently-contacted tribe – Fears of swine flu contagion
A court ruling in India has put one of the world’s most recently-contacted tribes at greater risk of the swine flu pandemic, according to campaigners.
Government ignores land rights ruling
The government of the Malaysian state of Sarawak is ignoring a recent court ruling recognizing the rights of the Penan and other tribes to their land, according to a leading Sarawak Indigenous rights lawyer.
Indigenous organisation says Ombudsman's report not 'definitive'
Peru’s leading Amazon Indigenous organisation has stated that the report by Peru’s Ombudsman on the recent violence in the rainforest is not ‘definitive’.
Ombudsman's report says 33 people died in Amazon violence
A report just published by Peru’s Ombudsman states that thirty-three people died in the recent violence in the Peruvian Amazon.