Violence continues against the Jumma tribal people of Bangladesh. On 12 July a Jumma shopkeeper was arrested by the army in Mahalchari. He was severely beaten and tortured, and was given electric shocks.
A federal prosecutor has ordered FUNAI, the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, to draw up a plan to recognise the land of a group of Arara Indians.
The Kalahari Bushmens landmark court case against the Botswana government will reach a crucial stage at the end of August as the lawyers present their final arguments to the court.
The isolated tribe of Amazonian nomads who fled their rainforest home in Colombia as fighting engulfed them are returning to the forest.
On UN Indigenous Peoples Day (9 August), Survival welcomes the UN Human Rights Councils historic vote in favour of the declaration on Indigenous peoples rights. Canada and Russia were the only two countries on the council to vote against .
Brazils highest court, the Federal Supreme Court, yesterday upheld the conviction of genocide against four goldminers who murdered 16 Yanomami Indians in 1993.
Bishops and other religious leaders in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso are warning that uncontacted Indians of the Rio Pardo are 'suffering the imminent threat of genocide'.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has praised Survival's newly launched cartoon book, There you go! by Oren Ginzburg.