UN Special Rapporteur visits Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon
Prof James Anaya, the recently appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous people, is currently visiting Brazil.
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British mining company under pressure over mine
British mining company Vedanta is under intense pressure over its plans to mine the Dongria Kondh tribe’s land in India, as a Scottish investment group sells its shares and Amnesty International joins the campaign in support of the tribe.
Amazon Indians protest against government
Thousands of Amazon Indians are protesting against the Peruvian government. Protests have been going on for more than a week and involve an estimated 14,000 Indians from all over the Peruvian Amazon.
Urgent petition launched to support Indians
Indigenous peoples and their supporters in Brazil have launched an urgent petition calling on Brazil’s Supreme Court to uphold the ratification of Raposa-Serra do Sol, an Indigenous territory in the Amazon region, northern Brazil. Link to www.makunaimagri
Commission investigates abuses in West Papua
Indonesia's National Commission on Human RIghts is currently investigating human rights violations and atrocities in West Papua.
West Papuans reject oil palm plans for 'mother' forest
A group of NGOs is urging the Indonesian government not to permit any more oil palm plantations in West Papua.
Amazon nomads face 'imminent extinction'
Colombia’s last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, the Nukak, is in ‘imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction’, according to the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PTT), which investigates and tries human rights violations around the world.
Scientists call for 'outright protection' of uncontacted tribes' land
Five scientists writing in a peer-reviewed journal have called for the ‘outright protection’ of lands belonging to uncontacted tribes in Peru and other countries in the western Amazon.