The United States Department of State has this month produced a report on human rights in Botswana. The report criticises the Botswana government’s ‘narrow interpretation’ of the High Court ruling on the Bushmen.
The British TV company Cicada Films has denied being responsible for a flu epidemic in a remote region of Peru that according to local Indians caused four deaths.
A fierce controversy is raging in the Peruvian Amazon over the activities of a film crew working for the British TV company Cicada Films.
Survival International today releases a summary report which shows how tribal peoples are having their basic right to water denied.
Supporters of Survival International in France will hold a peaceful demonstration in support of the Kalahari Bushmen on Friday, to coincide with an official visit from Botswana’s president, Festus Mogae.
An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as ‘Neolithic’, ‘out-of-date’ and ‘filthy’ has been named by Survival as the ‘most racist article’ in the mainstream media published in the last year.
The UN Human Rights Committee will meet this week to examine Botswana’s human rights record.
A group of armed men have walked into an Enawene Nawe fishing camp in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, and threatened the Indians with reprisals unless they leave.