Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
Region: Brazil
Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken from an impoverished Indian trib... more
Views: 1570Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
Region: Botswana
Survival International, the human rights organization for tribal peoples, today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call... more
Views: 951Tribe’s SOS to save uncontacted families from extinction
Region: Paraguay
Leaders of an isolated South American tribe have issued a desperate public appeal on behalf of their family members hiding in forest targeted by cattle ranchers. Some members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode ... more
Views: 1471World’s most isolated tribe threatened by poachers
Region: India
Poachers targeting rich fishing grounds in India’s Andaman Islands are endangering the world’s most isolated tribe. More than a hundred iIllegal fishermen from Burma have been arrested in recent weeks.... more
Views: 1793Brazilian Indians held prisoner by gunmen
Region: Brazil
A large group of Guarani Indians in Brazil is being held prisoner by gunmen hired by ranchers. The gunmen have cut off the Indians’ access to food, water and health care since they surrounded their communit... more
Views: 1287Let’s fight together : J&K Gujjars to Jats
Region: India
Jammu/Srinagar,September 5 (Scoop News) -In a major initiative, the Scheduled Tribe Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today offered their full support to Jat community of State in their current struggle f... more
Views: 2479Blooming Bamboo Dooms Economy in Indian State
Region: India
After 69 day-long economic blockade, the economy of Manipur state in India is in trouble again. This is its from flowering of bamboo. A video produced by a local reporter from interior Manipur brings in light this ph... more
Views: 3304Nomad tribe emerges from forest to prove its existence
Region: Brazil
Indians from the tiny Awá tribe will stage a three day protest in the Brazilian Amazon from August 1st to 3rd, to prove that they exist and to demand that their land be protected from invasion. The even... more
Views: 1478Spanish oil giant targets uncontacted indians’ rainforest
Region: Peru
Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land i... more
Views: 1384Ten Tribesmen Killed in Armed Clashes of Rival Tribes
Region: Pakistan‘Ten persons are killed and thirty others are injured in armed clashes between Tori and Bangash tribes of Kurram Agency on Sunday, 50 houses and one FM radio station is also damaged during armed clashes between both ... more
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