A ‘lost’ report exposing widespread murderous human-rights abuses against indigenous Brazilians, suddenly reappears after 45 years. Named after its author – Jader de Figueiredo Correia – the report caused international consternation when first published in 1967, in response to investigation initiated by the Brazilian interior ministry. It detailed cases of habitual and unchecked abuses carried out [...]
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Survival International, the movement for tribal peoples, is the only organisation working for tribal peoples’ rights worldwide. It helps tribal peoples protect their lives, lands and human rights. It works to change racist attitudes towards, and false beliefs about, tribal peoples and seek to stop the illegal and unjust way they are treated. Survival's vision is to foster an understanding of, and respect for, tribal peoples and the choices they make about their futures. // German Website of Survival InternationalWorldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project expansion
Survival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of the Camisea gas project in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, which puts the lives of uncontacted Indians at risk. Protesters will carry placards and gas masks symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on uncontacted [...]
UN demands ‘immediate suspension’ of Amazon gas plans
The United Nations has demanded an immediate halt to the expansion of a major gas project in the Peruvian Amazon, over concerns that it poses a grave risk to the lives of uncontacted Indians living nearby. In a letter to the Peruvian government, the UN’s Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) requested the ‘immediate suspension’ of [...]
Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés Indians gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil on March 9th and called on their governments to stop the exploration, warning that the work will devastate their forest home.
Indian Supreme Court ‘reverses order’ to ban ‘human safaris’
India’s Supreme Court reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ban ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands, dealing a major blow to the campaign against the controversial tours. Before the interim order, hundreds of tourists traveled along the illegal Andaman Trunk Road every day in the hope of seeing the isolated Jarawa tribe. Tourists used [...]
Bushman children arrested under renewed government repression
Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who have returned to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The children were jailed last week for being in possession of antelope meat in the CKGR. All have since been released, but further [...]
‘Human safari’ row goes to India’s Supreme Court
Survival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a year after the world was shocked by an international exposé of semi-naked Jarawa women being forced to dance in exchange for food. Despite the scandal attracting widespread condemnation, authorities on the Andaman Islands have continued to ignore a subsequent court order that imposed a five-kilometer buffer [...]
In pictures: The reindeer people under threat this Christmas
Each year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges that the world’s largest reindeer herd is in serious decline, and thatRAIPON, an organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to [...]
Bushmen beaten, suffocated and buried alive for killing an antelope
Paramilitary police have severely beaten two Bushmen, burying one in a shallow grave, after accusing them of hunting without permits in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Nkemetse Motsoko and Kebonyeng Kepese were arrested near the community of Gope in the CKGR after killing an eland (a large antelope). The two men were successful applicants in a landmark [...]
Naked truth of Earth’s most threatened tribe laid bare by worldwide demo
Survival International will hold a worldwide demonstration on December 10 to urge Brazil, on Human Rights Day, to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. A woman in Brazilian carnival costume will lead the protests by standing outside London’s Brazilian Embassy, carrying a clear message for the Latin American government. Her body will be painted with the [...]
US food giant accused over biofuel ‘tainted with Indian blood’
A US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. Headquartered in the US, global grain trader Bunge is deeply involved in Brazil’s burgeoning biofuels market, and sources sugarcane from farmers who have taken over [...]
Earth’s most threatened tribe make unprecedented visit to Brazil’s capital
Fifteen members of Earth’s most threatened tribe have made an unprecedented visit to Brazil’s capital to urge the government to evict illegal invaders and protect their land. The Awá’s three-day journey took them from the relative isolation of their forest homes in Maranhão state, on a 2,000 kilometre bus journey to the center of Brasilia. For the [...]
