News archive » 2004

Botswana: Bushmen's agonising trek to return home
20 December 2004 Bushmen who were evicted by the government from their homes in the Kalahari are braving exhaustion and starvation to return to their land.
India: Campaign wins back land for isolated tribe
14 December 2004 Authorities in India have bowed to local and international pressure and increased the size of the reserve set aside for the recently-contacted Jarawa tribe.
UK - England: UK backs USA against tribal peoples
9 December 2004 Tribal peoples are appealing to the British government on UN Human Rights Day (December 10) to stop following the USA in opposing their rights.
UK - England: Hunger strike as UK blocks indigenous rights declaration
3 December 2004 Six indigenous people have been on hunger strike at the UN in Geneva in protest at the UK and other governments' blocking of an historic UN declaration on indigenous rights.
Botswana: Gana and Gwi Bushmen appeal to UK's black population
22 November 2004 Gana Bushman Roy Sesana has appealed to the UK's black population to support his people's fight to return to their land.
Bangladesh: New wave of violence hits Jummas
20 November 2004 An 11-month old baby badly injured and his parents killed during an attack by settlers on the Jumma people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
Ethiopia: Anger at governments new resettlement project
20 November 2004 Looked down on by the Ethiopian government, the cattle-herding Mursi and Bodi have had three thousand families belonging to the farming Konso people moved on to their land.
UK - England: Collective rights - UK blocks historic UN declaration
16 November 2004 The world's indigenous people are targetting the UK government for blocking an historic UN declaration on indigenous rights.
Botswana: De Beers supports Bushman book but not their rights
15 November 2004 In what is presumably an attempt to deflect attention from the controversy surrounding its reaction to the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of Botswana, De Beers is sponsoring the launch of a new book about the Bushmen of southern Africa.
Botswana: Botswana President tells MPs 'Bushmen can hunt in reserve'
12 November 2004 In an astonishing reversal of government policy, Botswana's President Festus Mogae has told British MPs that Bushmen are free to hunt in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: Bushman witness 'feared for her life' during evictions
10 November 2004 The first Bushman woman to give evidence during the court case in which 243 Bushmen are suing the government for the right to return to their ancestral land has told the court that she 'feared for her life' when being evicted in 2002.
Botswana: Indigenous leader shocked by visit to Botswana Bushmen
8 November 2004 A Khoisan youth leader from South Africa's Northern Cape has returned from Botswana shocked by the conditions he found in the Bushman eviction site of New Xade.
Paraguay: Critical time for uncontacted Indians
28 October 2004 A bill now being debated in Paraguay's Senate could provide a vital safe haven for uncontacted Indians - the last outside the Amazon.
Brazil: Future of tribes lies in the balance
25 October 2004 The Brazilian government is delaying ratifying the boundaries of an Indian area, Raposa-Serra do Sol, in north Brazil with disastrous consequences for the 12,000 Indians who have lived there since time immemorial.
Brazil: 10-year-old is latest victim in wave of Indian murders
25 October 2004 South America celebrates Columbus Day on Sunday 12 October - only days after a ten-year-old Brazilian Indian became the latest victim in a spate of killings and persecution of South American Indians.
Botswana: Bushmen's historic court case to recommence in November
25 October 2004 The historic court case brought by the Gana and Gwi Bushmen against the Botswana government is due to recommence on 3 November in Lobatse, the seat of Botswana's high court.
Botswana: Bushmen's historic court case to recommence in November
25 October 2004 The historic court case brought by the Gana and Gwi Bushmen against the Botswana government is due to recommence on 3 November in Lobatse, the seat of Botswana's high court.
Canada: Columbus Day marked by Indians' suicide 'epidemic'
14 October 2004 Indians in North and South America are killing themselves in record numbers as the continent marks Columbus Day (12th October). In one small Indian community in Canada, four young people have hanged themselves in the past three months alone.
Botswana: Botswana Bushmen give lectures and address world media during UK tour
6 October 2004 Bushmen representatives Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone spoke to packed crowds during their recently-ended UK tour, and gave a lecture at the Royal Society of Arts.
Kalahari Bushmen journey to Britain
28 September 2004 Two Kalahari Bushmen are making a dramatic journey to Britain on an urgent mission to save their people from extinction. The two leaders will be in London from 29 September to 5 October.
Botswana: Bushmen describe eviction horror in court
3 September 2004 Botswana\'s High Court has heard the first Bushman witnesses in their case against the government tell their harrowing stories of eviction from their ancestral land.
Botswana: US State Department says Botswana Government 'forced Bushmen to abandon their ancestral communities'
1 September 2004 A report on human rights released earlier this year by the US government says that the Botswana government 'forcibly resettled' the Bushmen from their ancestral land.
India: Wave of poaching and exploitation hits isolated Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands
31 August 2004 Outsiders are invading the reserve of the isolated Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands, India, and stealing the game on which they depend for food. There are also increasing reports of Jarawa women being sexually exploited.
Botswana: Bushmen start USA tour with Hollywood Amnesty Event
24 August 2004 Launching a month-long tour of the USA, two Kalahari Bushmen are to visit Hollywood with Amnesty International. Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone will attend an event in Beverly Hills on 27 August hosted by singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
Botswana: Botswana's President 'bribes' Bushmen - Again!
3 August 2004 Botswana's President this week handed out blankets and sweets to Bushmen in a relocation centre. His action comes in the middle of a court case in which the Bushmen are suing his government for the right to return to their ancestral land.
Botswana: Don't destroy us our way of life is as modern as yours'.
1 August 2004 Remote hunter-gatherer tribes have issued a plea to the outside world to mark the UN Day of Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, saying, We are not backward, our way of life is as modern as yours'.
Botswana: De Beers backtracks on denial of tribal peoples' rights
15 July 2004 De Beers has this week been backpedalling fast on its refusal to recognise indigenous rights in southern Africa.
Botswana: British MPs' visit to Botswana 'controlled by the government'
4 July 2004 A delegation of British MPs has just returned from a visit to Botswana paid for and organised by the government there.
Sri Lanka: Wanniyala-Aetto issue appeal
1 July 2004 The Wanniyala-Aetto (Veddah) people of Sri Lanka have appealed to their country's government to allow them to return to their land.
Botswana: Bushmen to take Botswana to court in July
31 May 2004 The court case that could decide the future of the Gana and Gwi
Bushmen will be held in July this year.
Kenya: Maasai speak out for the Bushmen
20 May 2004 Maasai representatives join protests against the Botswana government's treatment of the Bushmen.
Botswana: Bushman hunters arrested
18 May 2004 Three Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana have been arrested and charged with 'unlawful hunting'.
Botswana: Iman proves diamonds aren't forever
5 May 2004 In a dramatic new development, Somalian supermodel Iman has quit as the public 'face' of De Beers.
Brazil: Violence explodes as Lula government betrays Brazil's indigenous peoples
16 April 2004 The Brazilian Amazon has this week seen an explosion of violence, with both Indians and diamond miners being killed and beaten.
Canada: Innu return to London with a new initiative to help young Innu people
6 April 2004 Four years after coming to London to launch Survival International's report 'Canada's Tibet: the killing of the Innu', Jean-Pierre Ashini has returned to publicise a new initiative which seeks to reconnect young Innu with their land.
India: India violates court order on Jarawa. Tribe's fate to be decided behind closed doors
5 April 2004 The future of the recently contacted Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands is to be decided at a closed meeting on 7 and 8 April, in defiance of the Indian High Court which ordered 'open discussions' on the issue.
Cameroon: Cameroon Mbororo Land Campaigners Freed
31 March 2004 Three men from the Mbororo herding people of northwest Cameroon, imprisoned by a military tribunal, were freed on March 23 2004 by the Court of Appeal in North-West Cameroon.
Botswana: West Papuans United Nations Plea for the Bushmen
30 March 2004 A West Papuan delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights has made a plea in solidarity with the Gana and Gwi Bushmen.
Paraguay: Last isolated Indians south of the Amazon make contact
9 March 2004 A group of previously uncontacted Ayoreo Indians has emerged from the forests of Paraguay, under pressure from deforestation all around them. The 17 people (five men, seven women and five children) are in excellent health, but acutely short of water.
Kenya: Ogiek at risk of eviction
1 March 2004 Facing the threat of eviction, the Ogiek call on the Kenyan government to recognise their right to their forest territory.
Botswana: No Valentine's Day present for the Bushmen
12 February 2004 To mark Valentine's Day Survival has launched a postcard campaign calling for a boycott of De Beers and the Somali supermodel Iman.
Indonesia: Violence continues despite call for peace
12 February 2004 Papua has been besieged by conflict for the past four decades, with an estimated 100,000 tribal people killed during that time.
Botswana: 100,000 new supporters for the Bushmen
10 February 2004 Survival supporters around the world are handing in a 100,000 signature petition to Botswana embassies and consulates this week.
Botswana: Wave of harassment marks Bushman anniversary
8 February 2004 The Botswana government is marking the second anniversary of its expulsion of Gana and Gwi Bushmen' from their land by carrying out a new wave of harassment.
Botswana: 'Bushmen' on the brink government persecution intensifies
31 January 2004 Two years after the Botswana government evicted hundreds of Gana and Gwi 'Bushmen' from their ancestral land, the authorities are now stepping up their persecution.
South Africa: South Africa's indigenous people condemn Bushman evictions
18 January 2004 Two organisations representing some of South Africa's indigenous peoples have spoken out in support of the rights of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen' of Botswana to return to their land.
Botswana: Bushmen return to London
7 January 2004 Survival International and Rebecca Hossack are proud to announce 'Survival', an exhibition of Bushmen art, embroidery and jewellery.

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