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Violence Engulfs Kenyan Tribe Just Miles From Royal Hideaway
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 11:19 am | Survival International
A Kenyan tribe living near the area famous for its links to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement has been engulfed by violence after wildlife charities arranged to buy their land. Kenya’s Laikipia district has been part of the traditional territory ... More >>
Survival Reveals Ten Hidden Abuses Against Tribes On Human R
Friday, 9 December 2011, 11:11 am | Survival International
Survival International is releasing ten tribal rights abuses ahead of UN Human Rights Day this Saturday, to expose violations that still pass largely unnoticed. Signed 63 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the first global expression ... More >>
Brazilian Gunmen Brandish Tribal Hit List In Wake Of Murder
Monday, 5 December 2011, 9:53 am | Survival International
Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month . More >>
Crackdown Fears Peak In West Papua
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 2:03 pm | Survival International
Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since they first raised their symbolic ‘Morning Star’ flag. A climate of fear surrounds the anniversary as Indonesia continues to brutally suppress any opposition, ... More >>
World's Original Scientists' Observations Of Climate Change
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 1:42 pm | Survival International
As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival International calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change . From the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal ... More >>
New Pictures Validate Brazil’s Yanomami Territory
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 8:56 am | Survival International
Survival International has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. More >>
It’s Official – The Key To Conservation Lies With Indigenous
Friday, 11 November 2011, 11:32 am | Survival International
Indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests , and conservation reserves that exclude them suffer as a result, according to a new study from the World Bank . More >>
Indians Demand Action - Paraguay's 'Hiding Tribe' Spotted
Friday, 4 November 2011, 3:02 pm | Survival International
Leaders of Paraguay’s Ayoreo tribe are calling on the government to stop cattle farmers from destroying their forests after signs of their uncontacted relatives were found on a ranch. Links: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7851 More >>
Peru Fires Top Indigenous Rights Official
Friday, 28 October 2011, 2:33 pm | Survival International
Peru has fired its top indigenous affairs official after she reversed an ‘illegal’ decision to allow Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to enter land inhabited by uncontacted tribes . More >>
Celebrities Back New Book On Tribal Peoples
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 9:56 am | Survival International
A groundbreaking new book which challenges many assumptions about tribal peoples – including how they are viewed and their role in the world – will be published by Freeman Press on November 14. More >>
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
