Leading figures in British public life, including the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Westminster, have backed the message of Survival's cartoon book There you go! that enforced development destroys tribal people.
Venezuelas environment minister has announced a presidential decree banning the building of new coal mines planned for the Sierra de Perijá in the state of Zulia. The expansion of existing mines is also prohibited.
Members of the Penan tribe have rebuilt their logging blockade, a month after it was dismantled by police and loggers.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Peruvian government to protect some of the world?s last uncontacted Indian tribes.
Some of the world?s last uncontacted tribes are at risk of extinction despite the creation of two reserves for them ten years ago on April 1 1997.
On the UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Survival is celebrating the success of its campaign against the use of terms like primitive and stone age to describe tribal and Indigenous peoples in the media.
The Botswana government has banned the Kalahari Bushmen from using their own water as UN World Water Day approaches on 22 March. A Bushman leader is travelling to London this week to protest against the ban.
In a devastating report India has been urged by the UN to protect the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands