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Seven dead’ after Indonesian troops storm Papuan rally
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 4:17 pm | Survival International
At least seven people are feared dead after Indonesian police opened fire on hundreds of West Papuans at an independence rally close to the province’s capital. More >>
Survival and Tribal People: Cannibal Claims
Friday, 21 October 2011, 10:03 am | Survival International
Survival International has lodged a formal complaint with authorities in the UK over the ‘highly offensive and ludicrous’ claims in the world’s press that a German tourist missing in the South Pacific has been ‘eaten by cannibals.’ ... More >>
UN demands urgent answers from Ethiopia over Gibe III dam
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:05 am | Survival International
The UN’s growing concern over Ethiopia’s construction of the controversial Gibe III dam has prompted it to demand urgent information from the African state. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has given Ethiopia until ... More >>
Brazilian Indian killed and abandoned by ‘ranchers’ gunmen
Saturday, 1 October 2011, 4:18 pm | Survival International
Two Brazilian Indians from the Guarani tribe © João Ripper/Survival A Guarani man in his 20s has died of his wounds following a violent attack, allegedly by gunmen employed by Brazilian cattle ranchers. More >>
‘Human safari’ tourism destroys UN drive to link cultures
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 10:45 am | Survival International
Travel and tourism have the power to link cultures and provide a ‘stepping stone towards peace’, according to the UN. But as the world marks its 32nd World Tourism Day, Survival has learned of an alleged sexual assault on a tribal woman in India’s ... More >>
Peru: Painkillers and Pens for Indians as Gas Giants Move In
Friday, 16 September 2011, 11:38 am | Survival International
Painkillers and Pens Used to Placate Peru’s Indians as Gas Giants Move In. Isolated Indians in southeast Peru are being ‘bribed’ with painkillers and pens, as industry giants seek to open up their land to explore for gas. More >>
‘Trucks of Men’ Brutally Attack Indigenous Brazilians
Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 10:58 am | Survival International
Survival International has received reports that truckloads of armed men are violently driving Brazil’s Guarani from their land, leaving them in fear of their lives. More >>
Rebel raid strips Colombian tribe of emergency medicines
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:48 am | Survival International
Armed rebels have hijacked the first attempt to provide medical aid by boat to Colombia’s near-extinct and nomadic Nukak Indians. Survival has learned that medical staff were forced to abandon all their supplies, which included stretchers, surgical equipment ... More >>
Brazilian Indians Demand Shell Leave Their Land
Wednesday, 7 September 2011, 10:32 am | Survival International
Indians of the Guarani tribe in Brazil have demanded that energy giant Shell stop using their ancestral land for ethanol production. More >>
Borehole Breakthrough for Botswana’s Bushmen
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:21 am | Survival International
Anti-extinction campaign to protect 35 Colombian tribes
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 1:44 pm | Survival International
The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. More >>
Anti-Extinction Campaign to Protect 35 Colombian Tribes
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 1:09 pm | Survival International
The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival International works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. More >>
Living longest:IndigenousBrazilian celebrates 121st birthday
Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 12:33 pm | Survival International
Survival International has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the world, as she prepares to celebrate her 121st birthday. Maria Lucimar Pereira is one of the Kaxinawá tribe, and lives in the western Brazilian ... More >>
Beef barons hold government to ransom
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 5:09 pm | Survival International
Ayoreo Indians were granted legal title to the land last year, but ranchers have refused to hand it over unless the state allows them to deforest a large area of adjacent land that the ranchers also own. More >>
Worldwide protests against Amazon mega-dam
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 12:06 pm | Survival International
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities worldwide, to protest against the Belo Monte mega-dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon. Groups across Brazil called on Brazil’s President Rousseff to halt the construction of the destructive ... More >>
‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code for filmmakers
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 1:46 pm | Survival International
Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel Channel’s ‘staged’ tribal TV series, Survival International has released a code of practice for filmmakers working with tribal peoples (pdf, 983 KB). The guidelines aim to prevent further ... More >>
Brazil bolsters security, crisis situation threatens Indians
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 12:39 pm | Survival International
The Brazilian government says it will dispatch National Security Force agents to help protect a tribe of uncontacted Indians missing after drug traffickers attacked a government guard post. More >>
Nine tribal facts for August 9
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:30 pm | Survival International
August 9th is the UN Day of indigenous people. To celebrate, here are 9 little-known facts from Survival International about tribal peoples. More >>
Uncontacted Indians' guard post overrun by drug traffickers
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:03 pm | Survival International
The Brazilian guard post protecting the uncontacted Indians who were filmed from the air earlier this year has been over-run by heavily-armed men, suspected to be drug-traffickers. It has been ransacked and vital equipment destroyed. More >>
BBC Travel show ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted'
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 1:11 pm | Survival International
A TV series about an Amazonian tribe has been slammed as ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’ by experts on the tribe. ‘Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga’ was shown on the Travel Channel in the US, and on the BBC last year. In the show ... More >>
