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‘No Oil Drilling Without Tribes’ Consent’
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:16 pm | Survival International
The call was made in a statement by the UN’s Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), published on Monday. Delegations from Peru’s government and several Peruvian organisations have appeared before CERD in recent weeks. More >>
Calls For Napalm Bombing Of 'Savages'
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 1:06 pm | Survival International
An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named by human rights organisation Survival International as the ‘most racist article’ published in the last year by the mainstream media. More >>
Anti-Logging Protests Spread In Borneo
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 12:23 pm | Survival International
Hundreds of Penan have blocked roads at three new locations in the interior of Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo. The protestors are demanding an end to logging and plantations on their land without their consent, and recognition of ... More >>
Amazon Indians Struck By Swine Flu ‘For First Time
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:37 pm | Survival International
The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts’ fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases. More >>
Sign tribal peoples’ law and help save rainforests
Saturday, 8 August 2009, 4:04 pm | Survival International
ILO Convention169 , which marks its twentieth anniversary this year, is the only international law to recognize and protect the land rights of indigenous and tribal peoples. It is also a key instrument in the battle to save the world’s rainforests, ... More >>
Bushmen Freed As Government Clampdown Backfires
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 3:28 pm | Survival International
An attempt by the Botswana government to punish Bushmen for hunting to feed their families has backfired after a magistrate let them off with a caution, and ordered their release from prison. Six Bushmen were arrested in 2007 for hunting without ... More >>
Top 3 Places Not To Go On Holiday
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 12:13 pm | Survival International
As the holiday season enters full swing, Survival International today names three destinations holidaymakers should avoid: More >>
Borneo Tribe Mounts New Blockades
Friday, 31 July 2009, 12:19 pm | Survival International
Dozens of Penan tribespeople armed with blowpipes and spears have erected blockades across the roads cut by logging companies deep into their forest in Borneo. The blockaders are calling for an end to logging on their land. More >>
Six Kalahari Bushmen Imprisoned For Hunting
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 12:53 pm | Survival International
Botswana High Court Judge Justice Phumaphi ruled in 2006 that forbidding the Bushmen from hunting for food was ‘tantamount to condemning [them] to death’. The historic ruling recognized the Bushmen’s right to live on their ancestral land, and condemned ... More >>
Tribe Brings Warning To London
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 4:57 pm | Survival International
Human rights campaigner, Bianca Jagger, and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy lent their support for a protest today outside the AGM of British mining company Vedanta Resources . More >>
Indigenous Resistance Spreads Worldwide
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 3:58 pm | Survival International
Anil Agarwal , billionaire chairman (and majority owner) of Vedanta Resources , announced in January that its massive bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri Hills would start ‘in a month or two’, but men and women of the Dongria Kondh tribe , furious at ... More >>
Peru Approves Massive Oil Project
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 4:53 pm | Survival International
Peru's government has given the green light to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just thirteen days after more than 30 people died in protests against the exploitation of the rainforest. More >>
Peru Killings: Dramatic Eyewitnesses’ Report
Monday, 22 June 2009, 1:44 pm | Survival International
An eyewitness account of the killings in Peru which caused shockwaves around the world is published today by Survival International. The report contains shocking photos by two Belgians, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, who were caught up in ... More >>
Celebrity Resort Threatens Isolated Tribe
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 1:38 pm | Survival International
A luxury resort being built on the Andaman Islands in India is threatening the survival of the Jarawa tribe, who number just 320 and have only had contact with outsiders since 1998. More >>
Oil Companies ‘Should Withdraw’ From Peru
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:21 pm | Survival International
Survival International today called on all oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s. More >>
'Dalai Lama Of The Rainforest' Condemns Violence
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:19 pm | Survival International
A Yanomami Indian shaman from the Brazilian Amazon, dubbed ‘the Dalai Lama of the rainforest’, today denounced the violence in Peru during his visit to London. More >>
British Mine And Destruction Of Tribe in India
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 1:43 pm | Survival International
Survival International will hold a protest tomorrow outside the Indian High Commission in London, to demand that the Indian government stops the mining giant Vedanta Resources from destroying the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe. More >>
Controversial Mine Approved By Indian Government
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 12:07 pm | Survival International
The tribespeople, furious that the lush hills where they live will be devastated, have mounted a series of blockades and large-scale protests in recent years. They say the mine will end their way of life forever, and have vowed to block Vedanta ... More >>
License To Destroy Uncontacted Tribe’s Land
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 1:21 pm | Survival International
A Brazilian cattle-ranching company is seeking permission from Paraguay’s government to destroy forest inhabited by one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. More >>
Recession Hits Diamond Industry
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 1:15 pm | Survival International
The planned diamond mine at the centre of an international controversy over the forced relocation of Botswana’s Bushmen has been shelved due to the global recession. Demand for diamonds has collapsed in recent months, and all Botswana’s diamond ... More >>
