News from October 2011

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  Peru fires top indigenous rights official after she blocks gas project 27 October 2011

  Blocked project would have allowed gas giant Pluspetrol to enter uncontacted tribes' land

   
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  Bolivia cancels controversial road plans 25 October 2011

  President Morales scraps road plans after months of indigenous protests

   
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  Celebrities back new book on tribal peoples 24 October 2011

  Director Stephen Corry's book challenges many assumptions about tribal peoples

   
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  ‘Seven dead’ after Indonesian troops storm Papuan independence rally 21 October 2011

  Representatives of Papuan tribes were meeting to choose a new leadership

   
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  Survival and tribal people denounce 'ludicrous' cannibal claims 20 October 2011

  Survival has launched a complaint over promoting ‘a false and offensive notion that tribal people are primitive savages.’

   
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  Peru takes action to protect uncontacted tribes 19 October 2011

  Amazon park access restricted following several sightings of uncontacted Indians

   
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  Bangladesh tribe falls victim to rise in sex attacks and killings 19 October 2011

  'Unabated' levels of violence against indigenous women and children exposed

   
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  Amazon Indian warns UN of ‘major suffering’ of his people 18 October 2011

  Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe has traveled to Geneva to warn of the devastation a planned mega-dam would cause.

   
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  UN demands urgent answers from Ethiopia over Gibe III dam 13 October 2011

  Committee requests evidence that tribal people in the region have been consulted

   
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  Indian government accused of failing its forests 11 October 2011

  Experts say India is approving 'obviously damaging projects'

   
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  Two decades of legal battles, but land at last 7 October 2011

  Enxet Indians in Paraguay have won back ancestral land after years of living next to a highway

   
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  Brazilian tribe’s ‘unequalled’ suicide rate highlighted on World Mental Health Day 7 October 2011

  More than 625 Guarani have taken their lives since 1981

   
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  Ethiopia’s ‘bulldozer’ government arrests 100 tribal people over dam 6 October 2011

  Climate of fear is growing as government cracks down on opposition to Gibe III

   
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  Man sentenced to jail for racism against Brazilian Indians 4 October 2011

  Author described Guarani tribe as 'vagrants' and 'tramps'

   
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