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UN Agency For Palestinian Refugees Seeks $323M
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:25 am | Survival International
The United Nations agency entrusted with assisting millions of Palestinian refugees has launched its 2010 appeal for over $323 million at a meeting of the 22-member League of Arab States in Cairo, with a focus on those people in Gaza and the West ... More >>
Survival Celebrates 40 Years Of Success
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:24 am | Survival International
The human rights organization Survival International celebrates its 40th birthday this month, and is highlighting the huge advances in tribal peoples’ rights since 1969. More >>
Mining Company: Scare Tactics Against Human Rights
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 11:29 am | Survival International
There have been repeated protests against Vedanta's planned mine. Metals giant Vedanta Resources’ Indian subsidiary has launched an unprecedented attack on Survival International, apparently to drive its researchers out of an area where the company is planning ... More >>
Last Survivor Of Amazon Tribe Attacked
Monday, 14 December 2009, 12:09 pm | Survival International
The last survivor of an unknown and uncontacted Amazon tribe has been targeted by gunmen. More >>
Stopping Global Warming Devastates Tribal People
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 1:35 pm | Survival International
Measures to stop global warming risk being as harmful to tribal peoples as climate change itself, according to a new report from tribal rights organisation Survival International . More >>
Spoof Friends Of The Earth Award
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 11:49 am | Survival International
An Anglo-French company has been nominated for a spoof Friends of the Earth (FoE) award for its billion dollar project in a part of the Amazon inhabited by two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes . More >>
Woman Jailed For Insulting Botswana
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:03 am | Survival International
A South African woman who said Botswana’s president ‘looks like a Bushman’ was arrested, detained for two days and fined for ‘insulting Botswana’. Dorsey Dube was arrested after commenting on a portrait of President Khama at a control ... More >>
Kenyan Tribe Voices Concern To Ban Ki-Moon
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 4:32 pm | Survival International
A spokesman from a tribe in Kenya has condemned the Peruvian government’s attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon indigenous movement. More >>
Amazon Indians Die In ‘Swine Flu Epidemic’
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 4:28 pm | Survival International
Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected swine flu in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu. More >>
Repression Of Amazon Indian Movement Condemned
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 4:25 pm | Survival International
The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world. More >>
Repression Of Amazon Indian Movement Condemned
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:39 am | Survival International
The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world. More >>
South American Forest Bulldozed for Beef
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:49 am | Survival International
The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef. The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode is the only uncontacted tribe in the world currently ... More >>
Isolated AMazon Indians Die of Swine Flu
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 10:23 am | Survival International
Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected swine flu in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu. The Venezuelan government has sealed off the area, and sent ... More >>
Advert for Malaysian Palm Oil Banned in UK
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 10:02 am | Survival International
An advert for Malaysian palm oil has been banned in the UK, dealing a major blow to the credibility of Malaysia’s palm oil industry. Members of the hunter-gatherer Penan tribe in Borneo have welcomed the ban, saying, ‘Oil palm plantations have ... More >>
Amazon Mega-Dams Stoke New Wave of Indian Protests
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 10:09 am | Survival International
Kayapó Indians are to hold a protest against a huge hydro-electric dam planned for Brazil’s Xingu River, one of the Amazon’s main tributaries. The week-long protest will start on 28 October and take place in the Kayapó community of Piaraçu. At ... More >>
Central America Most Crime-Ridden Region In World
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 11:15 am | Survival International
Central America has become the region with the highest levels of non-political crime worldwide, with an average murder rate of 33 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, three times greater than the global average, a new United Nations report warns, noting ... More >>
Survival International’s 40th Anniversary
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 11:10 am | Survival International
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal models the new T-shirt designed by international designer John Rocha to mark the 40th anniversary of human rights organisation Survival International. The T-shirt is available exclusively from Survival’s Christmas catalogue More >>
Amazon Tribe Down To Five As Oldest Member Dies
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 12:42 pm | Survival International
Ururú was the oldest member of this close-knit, tiny group and an integral part of it. Altair Algayer, head of the FUNAI (Brazilian government Indian affairs department) team which protects the Akuntsu’s land said, ‘She was a fighter, strong, and ... More >>
Borneo: Tribe Arrested Outside Government Offices
Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:52 pm | Survival International
At least fourteen people, including six members of the Penan tribe , were arrested in Malaysia today as they tried to voice their opposition to hydroelectric dams that will force them off their land. More >>
Oil Company Threatened With Eviction By Amazons
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 11:50 am | Survival International
AIDESEP, the umbrella organisation of Peru’s Amazon Indians, has lodged an urgent appeal with the country’s Constitutional Tribunal to halt the project, in a part of the Peruvian Amazon known as ‘Block 67’. More >>
