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New Uncontacted Tribes’ Reserves
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:35 pm | Survival International
Peru’s indigenous affairs department (INDEPA) has announced it will hold a meeting to discuss the creation of five new reserves for uncontacted tribes in the remote rainforest. More >>
OECD Chairman Faces Fraud Inquiry
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:34 pm | Survival International
UK mining giant Vedanta Resources was dealt a double blow today as the OECD agreed that all the complaints made by Survival about the company’s planned bauxite mine in Orissa merit further consideration, and Indian police investigate fraud allegations ... More >>
Peru: Oil Rush Accelerates
Saturday, 28 March 2009, 12:32 pm | Survival International
The head of Peru’s state oil company has announced that it will auction off up to twelve new ‘lots’ for oil and gas exploration, according to reports. More >>
Oil Company To Enter Uncontacted Tribe's Land
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 3:28 pm | Survival International
Peru: Colombian Oil Company To Enter Uncontacted Tribes’ Land Colombia’s state oil company will enter territory inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted Indians in Peru under an agreement reached this week. The company, Ecopetrol, has ... More >>
Brazil: ‘Hating Indians And Wishing Them Dead’
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:56 pm | Survival International
To mark the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, Survival is accusing the makers of a controversial film of inciting racial hatred against Brazilian Indians. More >>
'Protect Uncontacted Tribe's Land!'
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 2:27 pm | Survival International
A desperate plea for the protection of uncontacted Indians’ land in western Paraguay has been issued by nine local organisations after round-table talks sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme. More >>
Peru’s Great ‘Hope’ Has Oil Income Frozen
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:48 am | Survival International
The French company tipped to transform Peru’s economy is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighbouring Ecuador, it has been announced. The announcement was made by PetroEcuador after the company, Perenco, missed its deadline to pay off ... More >>
'Shameful' Failure For Indigenous Peopes
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:02 am | Survival International
Only four members of the UN voted against the Declaration on Indigenous Rights in 2007: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Three are members of the Commonwealth. More >>
Newsreader Criticized After ‘Primitive’ Gaffe
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12:32 pm | Survival International
A spokesperson from Elsham, Papua’s leading human rights organisation, said, ‘I’m surprised that an experienced journalist like Mr Buerk should say something that is both offensive and totally wrong. The people actually being killed in Papua are ... More >>
Amazon Indian Cannibalism Reports
Friday, 20 February 2009, 12:07 pm | Survival International
World experts on the Amazon tribe accused of killing and eating a white settler cast doubts today on the authenticity of the accusations. The tribe’s supposed cannibalism has been reported by media all around the world. More >>
Winslet & Cruz Urged To Boycott Jewels At Oscars
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 8:50 am | Survival International
Survival Calls On Kate Winslet And Penelope Cruz To Boycott Graff’s Jewels For Oscars More >>
Demonstrators Target 'Graff Diamonds’ London Store
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 9:44 am | Survival International
Survival’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear. More >>
UK: Survival Targets Graff Diamonds
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 11:57 am | Survival International
Human rights group Survival International is holding a protest tomorrow outside Graff Diamonds’ flagship London store, to demand that Laurence Graff pulls out of a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana. More >>
India: Tribe Forms Human Chain
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 9:20 am | Survival International
Hundreds of members of the Dongria Kondh tribe have formed a human chain around their sacred mountain today to prevent British mining giant Vedanta from bulldozing it More >>
Leader Of Mro Tribe Released From Prison
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 9:10 am | Survival International
Ranglai Mro, leader of the remote Mro (or Mru) people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, was released on bail today after almost two years in prison. More >>
Billion Dollar Headache In Amazon
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 9:57 am | Survival International
An Anglo-French oil company hoping to drill for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Peruvian Amazon may be forced to abandon the project after the government threatened to withdraw investment in it. More >>
7,000 March Against British Mining Company Vedanta
Friday, 23 January 2009, 10:52 am | Survival International
Thousands of protestors in India marched against British mining firm Vedanta on Saturday, to oppose the company’s plans to mine a sacred mountain and feed its aluminium refinery. More >>
New Year Card Predicts Indian Tribe's Destruction
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 10:55 am | Survival International
Key shareholders in British mining giant Vedanta Resources received a New Year card this morning, congratulating them on their involvement in the impending destruction of the remote Indian hill tribe, the Dongria Kondh. More >>
British Company Poised To Invade Tribal Land
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 12:19 pm | Survival International
An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 800 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians. More >>
India: Blockade Stops Invasion into Tribal Land
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 11:45 am | Survival International
A blockade mounted by more than 50 protestors stopped British mining company Vedanta entering the land of the Dongria Kondh and other Kondh tribes under cover of darkness last night. More >>
