De Beers backtracks on denial of tribal peoples' rights
De Beers has this week been backpedalling fast on its refusal to recognise Indigenous rights in southern Africa.
De Beers has this week been backpedalling fast on its refusal to recognise Indigenous rights in southern Africa.
A delegation of British MPs has just returned from a visit to Botswana paid for and organised by the government there.
The Wanniyala-Aetto (Veddah) people of Sri Lanka have appealed to their country's government to allow them to return to their land.
The court case that could decide the future of the Gana and Gwi
Bushmen
will be held in July this year.
Maasai representatives join protests against the Botswana government's treatment of the Bushmen.
Three Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana have been arrested and charged with 'unlawful hunting'.
In a dramatic new development, Somalian supermodel Iman has quit as the public 'face' of De Beers.
The Brazilian Amazon has this week seen an explosion of violence, with both Indians and diamond miners being killed and beaten.