Outsiders are invading the reserve of the isolated Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands, India, and stealing the game on which they depend for food. There are also increasing reports of Jarawa women being sexually exploited.
Launching a month-long tour of the USA, two Kalahari Bushmen are to visit Hollywood with Amnesty International. Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone will attend an event in Beverly Hills on 27 August hosted by singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
Botswana's President this week handed out blankets and sweets to Bushmen in a relocation centre. His action comes in the middle of a court case in which the Bushmen are suing his government for the right to return to their ancestral land.
Remote hunter-gatherer tribes have issued a plea to the outside world to mark the UN Day of Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, saying, 'We are not backward, our way of life is as modern as yours'.
De Beers has this week been backpedalling fast on its refusal to recognise Indigenous rights in southern Africa.
A delegation of British MPs has just returned from a visit to Botswana paid for and organised by the government there.
The Wanniyala-Aetto (Veddah) people of Sri Lanka have appealed to their country's government to allow them to return to their land.
The court case that could decide the future of the Gana and Gwi
Bushmen
will be held in July this year.