
Nukak displaced by armed conflict
Sixty-five Nukak Indians have been displaced by armed conflict on their land between right-wing paramilitary groups, left-wing guerrillas and the Colombian army.
Sixty-five Nukak Indians have been displaced by armed conflict on their land between right-wing paramilitary groups, left-wing guerrillas and the Colombian army.
Twenty-five protestors from Survival International were bundled out of the Oxford Union by burly security guards on Friday for wearing offensive t-shirts and asking offensive questions.
A logger operating illegally in the territory of isolated Waorani Indians has been found dead.
Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police in a series of incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.
The government of the Indian state of Jharkhand has declared that tribal people from different parts of the state will be taken on tours to visit cities.
Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, there was a dramatic turnaround today in the fortunes of the Kalahari Bushmen as they learnt they have won the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.
Bushman leaders arrested on 24 September were beaten in custody by policemen including the superintendent, it has emerged today.