The Botswana government faced tough questions from members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on Friday over its eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their ancestral land.
As Brazils President Lula makes a state visit to the UK this week, one of the Amazons most unusual tribes is losing its land to plantations of soya that may be bound for the UK.
The Botswana government has attempted to subvert the Kalahari Bushmens efforts to raise money for their costly legal case over their eviction from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
The controversial American fundamentalist missionary organisation New Tribes Mission is making weekly visits to a group of isolated Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians first contacted in 2004.
The Botswana government's key 'expert witness' in the Bushmen's court case, American vet Kathy Alexander, has testified that Bushmen can spread diseases to wildlife, but tourists don't.
Loggers operating illegally in the Purús National Park in Peru are causing large numbers of uncontacted Indians to flee from their traditional territory.
In a surprise revelation, the Botswana government has said that a diamond mine on the land of the Central Kalahari Bushmen would affect 5,027 square kilometres of land - well over a hundred times more than previously announced.
A new report by a team of scientists shows that Indigenous territories are the most important barrier to Amazonian deforestation.