Key international law on tribal peoples ratified
Chile has signed up to the world’s key international law on tribal peoples, following Spain and Nepal to become the third country to sign in the last eighteen months.
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Threats to uncontacted tribes deemed 'vital' issue by Indigenous federation
The threats to uncontacted tribes living in the most remote parts of the Amazon basin has been named an ‘issue of vital importance’ by the Amazon’s most prominent Indigenous federation.
Survival protest – ‘Bushman women dying for diamonds’
Survival International will hold a peaceful protest in support of the Kalahari Bushmen outside a public meeting hosted by the Botswana diamond industry at Chatham House in London.
Pippa Small named ‘Survival ambassador’
Jeweller Pippa Small was named today as an ambassador for Survival International.
Yanomami - ‘Mining project will bring death to our people’
Yanomami Indian leaders in Brazil have claimed that a project to open Indigenous land for mining would ‘bring death’ to their tribe.
An Indigenous language dies ‘once every two weeks’
An Indigenous language dies on average once every two weeks, reports Survival on International Mother Language Day (21 February).
Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.
Independent team denounces repression of Jumma tribes
A group of prominent Bangladeshis have spoken of their ‘grave concern’ for the Jumma tribal peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts after a fact finding trip to the region.