British mining giant Vedanta's Chairman Anil Agarwal told the company’s AGM today that his company would only go ahead with its highly controversial bauxite mine in Orissa, eastern India, with the ‘complete permission’ of the Dongria Kondh tribe.
Human rights organisation Survival International protested today outside the AGM of British mining giant Vedanta.
A tribe in the Philippines has served its own tribal justice on Canadian mining company, TVI Pacific.
Uncontacted Indians have been spotted by oil workers in the remote Peruvian Amazon, according to Peru’s national Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP.
Six West Papuans are to be charged with ‘subversion’ after peacefully raising the banned West Papuan independence symbol, the Morning Star flag. The protest took place in the town of Fakfak, which is 550 miles to the west of the capital, Jayapura.
Evidence of an uncontacted tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon has been found by the Peruvian government’s natural resources department, INRENA.
Doctors fear that the number of Papuans living with HIV/AIDS far exceeds the government’s figures.
A secret document accidentally posted on the internet reveals plans to build a series of massive hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, submerging the homes of at least a thousand tribal people.