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Canada: Book Exposing Innu Persecution Wins Award
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 9:10 pm | Survival International
Professor Colin Samson, associate and supporter of Survival International, has won the prestigious Pierre Savard Award for his book on the forced assimilation of the Innu people of the Labrador-Québec peninsula. More >>
India: Doctors Confirm Jarawa Have Measles
Saturday, 20 May 2006, 3:35 pm | Survival International
Doctors on the Andaman Islands have confirmed that members of the Jarawa tribe have been suffering from measles. The local authorities had denied that there had been an outbreak of measles within the tribe, claiming instead that a number of Jarawa ... More >>
India: Disease Hits 16% of Isolated Andaman Tribe
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 8:48 pm | Survival International
Forty-two children from the isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands have been hit by disease in the last three weeks, in an epidemic which could wipe them out. The figure represents 16 percent of the tribe's total population of 270. More >>
India: Isolated Andaman Tribe Hit By Measles
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 9:01 pm | Survival International
The isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean have been hit by a measles epidemic which could wipe them out. Seven Jarawa children have been admitted to hospital. The outbreak is the second to strike the 270-strong tribe since ... More >>
Guarani Warn Of Bloodbath On National Indian Day
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 10:00 am | Survival International
As Brazil celebrates 'Indian Day' on 19 April, Guarani Indians facing eviction from their land have warned of a bloodbath. The Indians are to be forced to return to the roadside where they lived in miserable conditions before 2004. More >>
Botswana: Bushman Hunters Arrested At Gunpoint
Friday, 14 April 2006, 12:00 am | Survival International
Eight Bushmen were arrested at gunpoint, threatened with death, and tortured last week before being held for a night in prison and charged for hunting in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana. More >>
Botswana: Amnesty Chile's Bushman Rights Campaign
Friday, 7 April 2006, 11:28 am | Survival International
Amnesty International in Chile has launched a campaign in support of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen, adding to the growing list of international NGOs speaking out against the Botswana government's eviction of the Bushmen from their land. More >>
Colombia: Drug Wars Force Forest Nomads To Flee
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 11:16 am | Survival International
150 Indians belonging to one of the last nomadic tribes in the Amazon have been forced to flee their land after becoming caught up in Colombia's drugs war. More >>
British Peer Claims Bushman Life Unevolved
Monday, 3 April 2006, 10:02 am | Survival International
Jenny Tonge, a former MP and now member of the UK's House of Lords, has sparked outrage by claiming that the Bushmen's way of life is biologically less evolved. In a debate in the House of Lords, and later in a BBC interview, she called the Bushmen's lifestyle ... More >>
Pilger, Simpson Urge Journalists: Drop 'Stone Age'
Monday, 20 February 2006, 5:02 pm | Survival International
John Pilger and BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson have urged fellow journalists not to use terms such as 'stone age' and 'primitive' to describe contemporary tribal peoples, in a letter published in the Financial Times. More >>
Botswana: Bushmen's Costs Mount As Case Delayed
Monday, 20 February 2006, 4:57 pm | Survival International
As the court case deciding the fate of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen comes to the end of its second week in 2006, the proceedings have already fallen more than one week behind schedule. More >>
India: World's Most Isolated Tribe Kills Invaders
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 3:35 pm | Survival International
Members of the world's most isolated tribe, the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, killed on 26 January two fishermen who had illegally approached their island. The Sentinelese, who were photographed after the December 2004 tsunami firing an arrow ... More >>
Journalists Launch Campaign against Media Racism
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 4:02 pm | Survival International
A new campaign launched today aims to end the portrayal of tribal people in the press as 'primitive' and 'Stone Age'. It is being supported by prominent journalists such as BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson, the BBC's Caroline Hawley, George Monbiot, ... More >>
Brazil: Indigenous Policy Under Fire From Indians
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:02 am | Survival International
Brazilian Indians have called on President Lula to dismiss the country's top Indian Affairs official Mércio Pereira Gomes, who is visiting London this week, after he implied that Indians already have enough land and that future land claims may be ... More >>
Tribes Who Survived Tsunami 'May Be Wiped Out'
Friday, 23 December 2005, 10:46 am | Survival International
The remote tribes of the Andaman Islands, famous for shooting arrows at a patrolling helicopter following last year's December 26 tsunami, are in danger of being wiped out completely by settlers invading their land. More >>
Brazil: Indians Thrown Off Land
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:15 pm | Survival International
Over one hundred federal police evicted the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of Ñanderú Marangatú, Mato Grosso do Sul, from their land yesterday morning. Ñanderú Marangatú was officially recognised as the land of the Guarani-Kaiowa in March this year, but ranchers are ... More >>
Brazil: Officials Accused Of Genocide Of Indians
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:27 pm | Survival International
A former state governor and a former top policeman are among the accused in Brazil's first ever investigation into the genocide of an uncontacted Indian tribe. More >>
Bushman Laureate: Without Land We Die
Friday, 9 December 2005, 9:33 am | Survival International
Kalahari Bushman Roy Sesana will receive the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' on 9 December, and will tell the world, ''My people love their land, and without it we are dying.' More >>
'Alternative Nobel' Bushmen Journey To Europe
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:35 am | Survival International
Two Kalahari Bushmen are journeying to Britain, Sweden and Germany on a desperate mission to stop the Botswana government arresting, shooting and torturing their people and starving them off their land. The two Bushmen will be in London from 29 November ... More >>
Botswana: Internatl NGOs Condemn Bushman Evictions
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:16 am | Survival International
Five non-governmental organisations have issued strong statements condemning the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The statements, from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland and France, ... More >>
