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July 2, 2020

Brazilian goldminers reported to have killed two Yanomami men

Two Yanomami men are reported to have been killed by gold miners in northern Brazil, as a massive gold rush brings death, disease and pollution to South America’s largest relatively isolated tribe.
January 21, 2020

Tribal communities in India plead with US not to fund eviction from ancestral lands

Two tribal communities in India have written to the US authorities urging them to scrap support for a conservation project that could lead to the tribe’s eviction from their ancestral forests.
January 14, 2020

Anger as controversial Indian mining company opens tribal school

Survival International says the school is an attempt to reduce tribal resistance to the mining industry by teaching children to see mining as good and their own culture as backward.
June 18, 2019

Indian government 'prepares all-out assault on tribal rights'

Survival International says one of the biggest human rights violations in the world is being planned, with almost no voices outside India raised in opposition.
May 3, 2019

Wiildlife rangers in Congo paid bonuses for arrests

Local people have given countless accounts of arbitrary arrests and many other abuses committed by rangers in the region.
March 5, 2019

Report exposes abuses on a global scale by WWF funded guards

A major investigation by news site Buzzfeed has exposed a shocking level of violent abuse by ecoguards and rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund.
February 22, 2019

Indian Supreme Court orders eviction of estimated 8 million tribespeople

The ruling is in response to requests to declare invalid the Forest Rights Act, which gives forest-dwelling people rights to their ancestral lands.
December 23, 2018

WWF implicated in land grab and human rights abuses in Republic of Congo

The World Wildlife Fund, one of the world’s biggest conservation organisations, is breaking the law in its backing of a conservation zone in the Congo Basin, according to recently released letters.
October 6, 2018

Terrorism charges pretext to silence human rights defenders in India, say UN experts

UN experts are concerned that terrorism charges are being used to silence those who promote the rights of India’s Dalit, indigenous, and tribal communities,
September 19, 2018

UN says Kenya's Lake Turkana is endangered

UNESCO added Kenya’s Lake Turkana to its World Heritage Site Endangered List in June 2018, a sign it believes the iconic lake’s survival is at risk. Experts believe it is drying up largely because of the Gibe III dam , which lies upstream in Ethiopia and was completed in 2016.