Brazil:Indian children starve to death 24 February 2005Three Guarani children have starved to death so far this year; hundreds more are suffering from malnutrition. Crammed onto tiny pockets of land, the Indians have nowhere to hunt, fish or even plant crops.
India:New baby is a sign of hope for the Onge 24 February 2005A new baby has been born to the Onge tribe of the Andaman Islands. The Onges numbers have plummeted in the past century and their birth rate is very low, so the birth, which brings the population to 97, is a cause for hope.
Philippines:Subanen face eviction 24 February 2005Several Subanen familes fear eviction from their ancestral land by the Canadian mining company, TVI.
Botswana:Government clamps down on freedom of speech academic to be expelled 23 February 2005Kenneth Good, professor of political science studies at the University of Botswana for 15 years, has been ordered to leave Botswana. Late last Friday three men arrived at his home with handcuffs to inform him that he had 48 hours to leave the country.
Botswana:Botswana's President prejudges court case 22 February 2005Botswana's President Mogae told a UK audience yesterday that he would not allow the Bushmen to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. 'I cannot allow them to go back,' he said, prejudging the court case currently in progress.
Botswana:The Bushmen fight back as Botswana's PR efforts flounder 11 February 2005Three years after the Botswana government evicted the Gana and Gwi
Bushmen from their ancestral land, over 200 Bushmen have returned
home in spite of attempts to stop them, while Botswana faces
increasing criticism in the international press.
Botswana:Three years on, persecution intensifies 2 February 2005On the eve of the three-year anniversary of the eviction of the Gana
and Gwi Bushmen from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve,
six Bushmen have been heavily fined for hunting to feed their families.
