Commonwealth Day: 'utter' and 'shameful' failure for Indigenous peoples
Only four members of the whole UN voted against the Declaration on Indigenous Rights in 2007: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Three are members of the Commonwealth.
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Commission calls for demilitarization and Jumma land rights
An international commission has urged Bangladesh’s new government to demilitarize the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and return stolen land to its tribal owners, the Jummas.
Remains of first human settlement found on Indigenous land
Signs and objects of first human settlement in Paraguay about 5,200 years old found on Guarani Paî Tavyterâ land.
112 mining licences granted on Bushman land since evictions
Since the Bushmen were forced off their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in 2002, the Botswana government has granted 112 mining licenses for mining companies to explore in the reserve. 16 licenses have been awarded for uranium exploration
Survival director says: 'Don't call tribal people primitive'
An article by Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, published in one of the UK’s leading newspapers, slams the use of terms like ‘primitive’ and ‘stone age’ to describe tribal peoples.
British newspapers ban use of 'primitive' and 'stone age'
British newspapers The Guardian and The Observer have banned the use of ‘primitive’ and ‘Stone Age’ to describe tribal peoples following Survival’s ‘Stamp it Out' campaign.
Indigenous death toll keeps rising
The number of Awa Indians massacred in a remote part of Colombia continues to rise.
Buerk criticized after 'primitive' gaffe
Former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk has been criticized by West Papuans after calling them ‘primitive’ and claiming they kill outsiders.