Yanomami health budget restored
The Brazilian government's health authority has reversed an earlier decision to cut funding for health care for the Yanomami Indians.
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UN condemns Botswana's 'dispossession' of Bushmen
Botswana has been condemned by the United Nations for its 'discrimination' against Bushman tribes.
Canadian natives help isolated tribe in India
A Canadian chief is today calling on an Indian court to prevent the recently contacted Jarawa tribe from being brought out of their forest home.
Survival's advertising campaign spreads to Canada
Survival International's advertising campaign has spread to Canada. A new advert appears today in the Ottawa Citizen highlighting the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Good news for the Nuba?
Over the last ten years the Nuba tribes of central Sudan have been caught in the middle of the vicious civil war between the Islamist government of Sudan and the rebel movement based in the south of the country.
Worldwide ad campaign launched for Bushmen
Survival, the worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples, launches an international advertising campaign on 2 March. The advertisements highlight the persecution of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana.
Bushmen silenced and barred from ancestral lands
The Botswana government last week denied the Gana and Gwi Bushmen still in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve their only means of communication with the outside world, and turned back Bushmen bringing them essential supplies of food and water.
Botswana tortures Bushmen, then prosecutes them
The Botswana authorities are prosecuting 13 Gana and Gwi Bushmen for 'hunting without a licence' after they had been tortured by wildlife officers.