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Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalahari Bushmen

Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 12:59 pm | Survival International

The US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned the government’s forced eviction of the [2] Kalahari Bushmen, according to secret US embassy cables released today. Ambassador Joseph Huggins told his bosses in Washington in 2005 that the Bushmen ... More >>

Survival protestors target international tourism fair

Sunday, 23 January 2011, 12:33 pm | Survival International

Demonstrators protest against tourism to Botswana at FITUR. © Iñaki Luis/Survival Visitors to the international tourism fair in Madrid were today met by Survival protestors calling for a boycott of tourism to Botswana . More >>

Botswana approves $3bn mine as Bushman water case begins

Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 11:17 am | Survival International

Botswana’s government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve – in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmen’s appeal against the Botswana authorities’ refusal to allow them [2]access to water there. More >>

Bushmen ‘determined’ as legal battle over water approaches

Friday, 14 January 2011, 9:23 am | Survival International

On January 17th, Botswana’s Court of Appeal will begin a hearing to decide whether [2]Kalahari Bushmen living on their ancestral lands have the right to water. The Bushmen, who returned to their lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve after a ... More >>

Borneo indigenous leaders arrested

Thursday, 13 January 2011, 12:58 pm | Survival International

Police in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have arrested two indigenous leaders for possession of ‘seditious materials’.The offices of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) were raided and its secretary, Nicholas Mujah, arrested ... More >>

Nukak’s desperate plea to return home

Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 1:14 pm | Survival International

A leader of the [2]Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee.’We want to return to our forest,’ said Joaquín Nuká, ‘from where the FARC guerrillas ... More >>

Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil expansion

Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 10:35 am | Survival International

The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm oil by 2020, using indigenous ... More >>

Survival Calls on Obama to Support Indigenous Rights

Thursday, 16 December 2010, 10:43 am | Survival International

To mark tomorrow's opening of the White House Tribal Nations Conference, [2]Survival International has called on President Obama to support the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. The United States is the only country in the world ... More >>

Botswana Government Rejects High-Profile Court Ruling

Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 10:26 am | Survival International

Four years on from a court victory which saw the [2]Kalahari Bushmen win the right to live on their ancestral lands, the Botswana government has issued a statement flouting the ruling.In 2002, the Botswana government forcibly evicted the Bushmen ... More >>

Botswana president in racist outburst against Kalahari

Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 9:47 am | Survival International

[1] In an astonishing outburst, Botswana’s president has described the [2]Kalahari Bushmen as ‘primeval’, ‘primitive’ and ‘backward’. Speaking at the country’s largest diamond mine, President Khama accused the Bushmen of living a ‘life of ... More >>

New films on Guarani plight mark UN Human Rights Day

Saturday, 11 December 2010, 11:54 am | Survival International

Survival has released two films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians ©Survival Survival International has today released two short films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians in Brazil, to mark UN Human Rights Day (December 10th). More >>

Double ‘green energy’ threat to Borneo tribes’ rainforest

Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 2:55 pm | Survival International

As environment ministers from around the world meet in Mexico for the UN climate change conference, tribes in the rainforests of Borneo are facing a double ‘green energy’ threat as hydroelectric dams destroy their rivers and their forests are ... More >>

Nobel Prize Bishop blasts Guarani ‘genocide in progress’

Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 10:43 am | Survival International

[1]Catholic Bishop Erwin Kräutler has accepted the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for his work defending the rights of [2]Brazilian tribes.He was honored ‘for a lifetime of work for the human and environmental rights ... More >>

Rancher defies court order – Brazilian Indians still hostage

Friday, 3 December 2010, 11:48 am | Survival International

A beleaguered Indian community in Brazil which has been cut off from the outside world by the rancher who has taken over their lands is still imprisoned, despite winning a recent court ruling. Links: 1. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6705 ... More >>

Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission

Saturday, 20 November 2010, 12:20 pm | Survival International

A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. More >>

International NGOs unite against oil giants

Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 12:53 pm | Survival International

Survival has sent a letter signed by more than forty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by [2]uncontacted tribes in Peru. More >>

Botswana diamonds boycott launched

Thursday, 4 November 2010, 5:58 pm | Survival International

Survival International will tomorrow call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds over the government’s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribal peoples’ rights organization is also urging the public to [3]boycott tourism to Botswana. Links: ... More >>