News archive » May 2007

  • UK: Bushman leader delivers letter to Tony Blair
    25 May 2007 Bushman leader Roy Sesana went to Downing Street yesterday to deliver a letter from his people to Prime Minister Tony Blair. On Wednesday he addressed MPs and peers at Westminster to ask for their support.
  • UK: Tribal peoples group launched in UK parliament
    22 May 2007 The UK’s first parliamentary group for tribal peoples will be launched at Westminster on Wednesday 23 May at a reception to be attended by Bushman leader Roy Sesana.
  • UK: Bushmen travel to Westminster to seek support
    22 May 2007 Bushman leader Roy Sesana will meet with British MPs at Westminster this Wednesday 23 May to seek support for his people’s ten-year struggle to return to their land in the Kalahari desert, Botswana.
  • Peru: Outrage at oil chief's plans for uncontacted tribes
    21 May 2007 Peru’s national indigenous peoples’ organization has strongly condemned plans by state oil company Perupetro to forcibly contact some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, a move that threatens them with extinction.
  • Peru: Oil chief seeks contact with uncontacted tribes
    17 May 2007 Peru’s oil chief has provoked a storm of controversy with plans to contact some of the world’s last uncontacted Indian tribes to ‘consult’ them about potential oil exploration on their land.
  • Asmat man, Papua.<br /> ©Jeanne Herbert/Survival<br />
    Indonesia: Police raid and occupy Papuan church headquarters
    16 May 2007 Indonesian police occupied the headquarters of the Indigenous Kingmi Church in Jayapura, West Papua yesterday. The church has been particularly vocal in speaking out against the terrible human rights violations in the region.
  • Brazil: Indian anger at Pope's comments
    14 May 2007 Brazilian Indians have reacted with anger to Pope Benedict XVI's claim during his recent trip to Brazil that their ancestors had been 'silently longing' to become Christians when Brazil was colonised 500 years ago.
  • Bushman elder, CKGR, Botswana 2004<br /> © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival<br />
    Botswana: Government restricts UN access
    14 May 2007 The Botswana government has announced that access to the country for the top UN human rights spokesman for indigenous peoples will be restricted.
  • Peru: Report highlights logging threat to uncontacted tribes
    10 May 2007 A recent investigation has found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted tribal people.
  • India: Andaman Islands defy Supreme Court on Jarawa
    7 May 2007 This week marks the fifth anniversary of an order by the Supreme Court of India that an Andaman Islands highway, which threatens the lives of the Jarawa tribe, must close. The government has defied the order, and the road remains open.