World experts on the Amazon tribe accused of killing and eating a white settler cast doubts today on the authenticity of the accusations. The tribe’s supposed cannibalism has been reported by media all around the world.
Survival International today called on Oscar-nominated actresses Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz not to wear Graff diamonds at this week’s Oscar ceremony. The jeweller is embroiled in controversy over its 9% stake in Gem Diamonds.
High-ranking officials in the Peruvian energy sector are pinning their hopes on a French company to overturn Peru’s billion dollar oil and gas deficit, announced last week.
The Enawene Nawe, a small and remote tribe living in the Brazilian Amazon, is featured in an article in the Sunday Times Magazine by the journalist Christina Lamb.
A Papuan human rights lawyer has been cleared of all charges under Indonesian law after accusations he sent a text message deemed ‘insulting’ to Indonesia’s president.
Ten Colombian Indians have been killed while trying to flee from the violent conflict that has engulfed their homes and families.
Indians from the Javari Valley, one of the largest Indigenous territories in Brazil, invaded the press office at the World Social Forum held in Brazil at the end of January.
Survival’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear.