Removal of illegal invaders suspended
Violence by farmers illegally occupying Indigenous land in the Brazilian state of Roraima has led the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) to suspend a police operation to remove them.
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Uncontacted tribes go 'round the world'
The threats of extinction to uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon have turned the tribes’ plight into one of global concern, with members of the public all around the world increasingly aware of the desperate situation facing them.
Gem Diamonds sink water boreholes on Bushman land, Bushmen still denied water
Several water boreholes have been sunk in preparation for a diamond mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana, but the Bushmen who live there are forbidden from taking any water at all from their own borehole.
Yanomami slam government over mining
Yanomami and Yekuana Indians from two communities have denounced the Brazilian government’s attempts to persuade them to accept large-scale mining on their land.
Uncontacted tribes flee across the border
Uncontacted tribes in Peru are fleeing across the border to Brazil because illegal mahogany loggers are invading their territory and killing them, according to an uncontacted tribes expert.
Penan’s chief’s death still a mystery after body exhumed
Police in Sarawak, Malaysia are not ruling out the possibility that anti-logging Penan leader Kelesau Naan, who was found dead in December, was murdered.
UK’s Channel 4 to expose mining on Yanomami land
The acclaimed Channel 4 current affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, is to broadcast a documentary tomorrow exposing the devastating effects of illegal goldmining on the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
Shootings and arrests spread fear in West Papua
Thirteen Indigenous Papuans were arrested on 13 March in the town of Manokwari, West Papua, for taking part in peaceful demonstrations against the 2007 law banning the display of the Papuan Morning Star flag.