Human rights organization Survival has today targeted US jewellery designer Neil Lane in its continued battle with De Beers, over the eviction of the Central Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana to make way for diamond mining.
The Ngaanyatjarra Aborigines of Western Australia have won legal recognition of a large part of their ancestral land. The claim covered more than 180,000 sq km in the Mt Gibson and Great Victoria deserts.
The Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños has returned five parcels of land to the Indigenous 'Miskito' Indians of the country's Caribean coast.
El presidente nicaragüense Enrique Bolaños ha devuelto cinco parcelas de tierra a los indígenas "miskito" de la costa caribeña del país.
Australian Professor Kenneth Good, who was deported from Botswana last month as a 'threat to national security,' lost his appeal in the Botswana courts on July 27.
The Botswana government has denied the torture of seven Gana 'Bushmen' by wildlife officials last month.
At a recent meeting in Paris, UNESCO approved a joint request by the Paraguayan government and supporters of the Ayoreo Indians to include a large area of Ayoreo forest in the new Chaco Biosphere Reserve.
A group of poachers recently entered a settlement of the isolated Jarawa tribe on the Andaman islands and stole honey collected by the group.