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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 >>
Botswana: Bushman Woman Found Dead in Reserve
Friday, 11 November 2005, 10:13 am | Survival International
The latest victim of the Botswana government's eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen died last week in the Central Kalahari. Qoroxloo Duxee is thought to have starved to death after wildlife scouts blockaded the reserve and stopped the Bushmen gathering ... More >>
Thrown Out of Oxford Union for Wearing a T-Shirt
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 10:02 am | Survival International
Twenty-five protestors from Survival International were bundled out of the Oxford Union by burly security guards on Friday for 'wearing offensive t-shirts' and 'asking offensive questions.' All were members of the Union or their guests. More >>
The Shots That Killed Democracy
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:17 am | Survival International
* Bushman child and two adults shot by Botswana police. * Family walk for days across desert to bring news to outside world. * Bushmen told that the government does not care if they starve to death. More >>
Botswana Imprisons Bushmen Leaders & Children
Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 9:33 am | Survival International
The leaders of the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari have been arrested and imprisoned. They were among a group of 28 Bushmen, including seven children, who were seized by police as they tried to enter their ancestral homeland, the Central ... More >>
Survival Organises London Fashion Week Protest
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 9:12 am | Survival International
Survival International has organised a protest against De Beers to coincide with London Fashion Week at the De Beers party today, Tuesday 20 September 7pm - 9pm (De Beers, 45-50 Old Bond Street, London W1). The protest against De Beers is in support ... More >>
Bushmen's Court Case Restarts Next Week
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 11:44 am | Survival International
Bushmen's Court Case Restarts Next Week The Gana and Gwi Bushmen's court case against the Botswana government restarts on Monday 8 August after a seven-week adjournment. The case is being fought over the Bushmen's right to live on their ancestral land ... More >>
Survival International Targets Neil Lane
Friday, 5 August 2005, 10:59 am | Survival International
Human rights organization Survival has today targeted US jewellery designer Neil Lane in its continued battle with De Beers, over the eviction of the Central Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana to make way for diamond mining. More >>
Professor Good Loses Botswana Deportation Appeal
Monday, 1 August 2005, 9:38 am | Survival International
Australian Professor Kenneth Good, who was deported from Botswana last month as a 'threat to national security,' over his criticism of Botswana's democracy and his correspondence with Survival, lost his appeal in the Botswana courts on July 27. More >>
Kalahari Bushmen Insist Diamonds Behind Evictions
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:32 pm | Survival International
First People of the Kalahari, who represent the CKGR Bushmen, are challenging the press release made by Axel Thoma at WIMSA in Namibia, and also we are challenging the press release by De Beers that says Kuru and other organisations believe we were ... More >>
UK: Bushmen Slam Museum's Diamonds Exhibition
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:00 am | Survival International
Kalahari Bushmen have condemned the 'Diamonds' exhibition opening this week at London's Natural History Museum with De Beers sponsorship. The museum has refused the Bushmen's request for the issue of their eviction from their land - which many believe was ... More >>
