
Government moves to scrap Bushman rights
Botswana's government is pushing a bill through Parliament to scrap the key clause in the Constitution which protects 'Bushman' rights.
Botswana's government is pushing a bill through Parliament to scrap the key clause in the Constitution which protects 'Bushman' rights.
Under government instruction, police have torched Ogiek houses and destroyed crops, instilling widespread terror.
In Brazil, Guarani children are dying from starvation. Robbed of almost all their lands, the Indians can no longer feed themselves.
Botswana's government is pushing a bill through Parliament to scrap the key clause in the Constitution that protects Bushman rights.
Paraguay's Congress yesterday rejected a bill to protect the heartland of the last isolated Indians south of the Amazon basin.
The US State Department has condemned the Bushman eviction sites as being 'threatened by the lack of employment opportunities and rampant alcohol abuse.'
The fate of the last uncontacted South American tribe outside Amazonia will be decided this week. Paraguay's Congress will debate a bill which would protect the heart of their territory.
Two musicians are busking from the UK to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, raising money for Survival.