Amazon tribe hit by soya makes British TV news headlines
The remote Enawene Nawe tribe of the Brazilian Amazon made British national TV news headlines yesterday in a hard-hitting report on the clearance of their land for soya plantations.
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Delegation faces tough questions from the UN
The Botswana government faced tough questions from members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on Friday over its eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their ancestral land.
'Soya is killing us' says Amazon tribe
As Brazils President Lula makes a state visit to the UK this week, one of the Amazons most unusual tribes is losing its land to plantations of soya that may be bound for the UK.
Government tries to subvert Bushmens court case fundraising
The Botswana government has attempted to subvert the Kalahari Bushmens efforts to raise money for their costly legal case over their eviction from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Fundamentalist missionaries make regular visits to recently-contacted group
The controversial American fundamentalist missionary organisation New Tribes Mission is making weekly visits to a group of isolated Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians first contacted in 2004.
Government witness: 'Bushmen spread diseases, tourists don't'
The Botswana government's key 'expert witness' in the Bushmen's court case, American vet Kathy Alexander, has testified that Bushmen can spread diseases to wildlife, but tourists don't.
Uncontacted Indians flee as loggers invade
Loggers operating illegally in the Purús National Park in Peru are causing large numbers of uncontacted Indians to flee from their traditional territory.
De Beers's mine on Bushman land would be a hundred times larger than previously announced
In a surprise revelation, the Botswana government has said that a diamond mine on the land of the Central Kalahari Bushmen would affect 5,027 square kilometres of land - well over a hundred times more than previously announced.