Fifty Jumma people injured and two raped in attacks by settlers
Fifty Jumma people were injured and two Jumma women raped when Bengali settlers attacked two villages in the northern Chittagong Hill Tracts this week.
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Amnesty Chile launches Bushman rights campaign
Amnesty International in Chile has launched a campaign in support of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen, adding to the growing list of international NGOs speaking out against the Botswana governments eviction of the Bushmen.
Guarani death toll rises
Two Guarani infants from the community of Ñanderú Marangatú died last week, bringing the number of deaths due to their eviction from their land in December to seven.
Drug wars force forest nomads to flee
150 Indians belonging to one of the last nomadic tribes in the Amazon have been forced to flee their land after becoming caught up in Colombias drugs war.
British peer claims Bushman way of life is biologically less evolved
Jenny Tonge, a former MP and now member of the UK's House of Lords, has sparked outrage by claiming that the Bushmen's way of life is biologically less evolved.
Witness admits armed guards in Bushmen reserve
A senior Botswana government official admitted under cross-examination this week that wildlife and police officers were camped around the Bushman community of Metsiamenong in December 2005 and January 2006.
Government admits Bushmen drinking themselves to death
The Botswana government has admitted that evicted Bushmen are drinking themselves to death in relocation camps.
Indigenous children dying as health crisis deepens
Since the Brazilian government's national health foundation, FUNASA, took over Indigenous health care from non-governmental organistions last year, Indigenous organisations report that diseases are spreading unchecked.