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Colombia: Sierra Nevada Indigenous leader murdered

Feb 10, 2017 ... Our other leaders must be protected.” The problem is not limited to Colombia. Indigenous activists throughout Latin America are being ...

Peru: Land at last for families of murdered Ashéninka Indians

Sep 1, 2015 ... Three men have been charged for the murders of the Indigenous leaders, but a further three suspects have not yet been arrested. The ...

Indian leader's killers convicted of kidnapping and torture

Feb 28, 2011 ... ... Indigenous leaders cannot be killed with impunity.' Survival supported a group of Guarani to attend the trial in São Paulo. Guarani. Tribe ...

Renowned Indigenous leaders call for end to uncontacted 'genocide'

Oct 9, 2017 ... Our uncontacted relatives, who live deep in the forest, are being attacked and killed. “But we won't be silenced. We do not want the riches of ...

Human Rights Day: tribal leaders assassinated for defending their ...

Dec 9, 2014 ... - Four Ashéninka Indian leaders from ... Related news articles. Brazil: Indigenous man killed as military police attack Guarani community.

Brazil arrests 18 over high profile execution of Indian leader

Jul 19, 2012 ... ... Indigenous activist to be murdered in cold blood. For years, powerful landowners have hired hit-men to kill those that challenge them. The ...

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips: Survival International statement ...

Survival International's statement on the killing of Bruno Pereira, a renowned Indigenous rights defender, and Dom Phillips, an experienced British ...

Brazilian Indigenous People

Their leaders are being systematically targeted and killed by private militias of gunmen hired by the ranchers to prevent them occupying their ancestral land.

Indigenous leaders denounce Amazon fires as “a terrifying plague"

Aug 27, 2019 ... Indigenous leaders across Brazilian Amazon say devastating fires are a “plague” that “makes our children sick and kills the animals.”

Six Colombian Indians killed as armed groups invade

Apr 18, 2015 ... Scores of Indigenous leaders have been killed in the cross-fire between the army, FARC guerrillas, and paramilitaries. This week, President ...