Communal houses belonging to Yekuana and Sanema Indians living in the Caura river basin, in the southern state of Bolivar, have been burned down by gold miners. Indian leaders have received death threats and one was beaten up by miners.
19 years after the murder of Vicente Canas, the trial of those accused of killing him began today in Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso state.
Teresa Murilha, a young Guarani Kaiowá mother of four children, killed herself on 11 October. Her oldest son found her body hanging from the rafters of their shack in the community of Paso Piraju.
The Noongar Aborigines, traditional owners of the land surrounding Western Australia's capital city, Perth, have won legal recognition of their ownership in a landmark court ruling.
An oil company exploring for oil in the Peruvian Amazon has announced that it will not enter the territory of isolated Indians, even though the area was inside its concession.
The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR), the continents top human rights body, is about to publish its report on Indigenous peoples in Botswana.
Two Ogiek have died after several days of violent clashes between Ogiek and a neighbouring tribe, the Kipsigis (Kalenjin).
Cattle ranchers have threatened Enawene Nawe Indians with reprisals if they attempt to visit the Rio Preto, an area where the Indians build dams to trap fish every year.