On 14 October 2003, in one of the most historic court judgments ever made in favour of Indigenous peoples, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that an Indigenous people had both communal land ownership and mineral rights over their territory.
These beautiful sounds come from a people whose way of life is threatened with destruction.
Killing of South American Indians escalates
Five European Heads of Mission [Ambassadors] to Botswana recently produced a report on the Bushmen's relocation. All Survival's attempts to see a copy of this report have been rebuffed.
The Wichí Indians of northern Argentina have won a resounding victory after a seven-year legal battle with the province of Salta.
In recent weeks bulldozers have entered the heartland of uncontacted Indians in Paraguay.
Several communities of Jummas, the tribal peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, have been attacked by Bengali settlers.
A motion tabled in the UK parliament, supporting the rights of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of Botswana, has been signed so far by 42 MPs.
