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Four Baka tribespeople – two women and two men – were beaten up by eco-guards in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week. The Baka had just returned to their village, after spending the day in the forest, when a squad of eco-guards arrived and accused them of hunting elephants.

A  Ugandan Batwa tribesman has been released from prison, after spending over seven months behind bars for killing a small antelope inside a protected area from which his people were illegally evicted.

A UN expert has warned that the Brazilian government is failing to recognise the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples after seeing first hand their shocking conditions. Many tribes around the country are subjected to genocidal violence by outsiders intent on stealing their lands and resources.

Participants in Manilakbayan 2015, called by some the 'Lumad caravan', have come to Manila for a month-long series of activities and protests to bring attention to human rights violations in Lumad communities of the Philippines.