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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.
May 13, 2019

Human rights and climate change: world-first case to protect indigenous Australians

ClientEarth is acting on behalf of a group of indigenous Australians from the Torres Strait region in a groundbreaking climate change case.
April 2, 2019

Indigenous people in Paraguay celebrate land victory

A fundamentalist American missionary group helped organise ‘manhunts’ in which large groups of uncontacted Ayoreo were forcibly brought out of the forest.
December 4, 2017

Suffering of Bangladeshi tribal people continues 20 years after peace accord

On the 20th anniversary of the peace accord between the Jumma tribal peoples and the Bangladesh government, campaigners have raised concerns that successive Bangladeshi administrations have failed to implement this vital agreement, or protect the Jumma.
June 29, 2017

Indian tribal leader dies in police custody

A leader of a tribe in India, which made headlines around the world when it won a David and Goliath battle against a British mining corporation, has died in police custody – following a violent police campaign of harassment and intimidation against activists.
February 14, 2017

Colombian indigenous leader murdered

An indigenous leader has been shot dead in Colombia. Yoryanis Isabel Bernal Varela was a leader of the Wiwa tribe and a campaigner for both indigenous and women’s rights.
June 29, 2016

Indonesian tribe attacked in palm oil plantation

Members of the nomadic Orang Rimba tribe in Indonesia have been attacked and their possessions burned as part of an eviction from a palm oil plantation on their ancestral land.
January 14, 2015

Tribal people illegally evicted from Indian tiger reserve

Tribal people have been forcibly and illegally evicted from India’s Kanha Tiger Reserve in the name of conservation. Across India, many face a similar threat.
June 11, 2014

Thousands of travellers urged to boycott Botswana

A worldwide advertising campaign calling for a boycott of tourism to Botswana, launched by Survival International has reached hundreds of thousands of travellers.
June 4, 2014

Brazilian Indian leader assaulted 10 days before World Cup

A young Brazilian Indian leader was assaulted on 2 June by four armed men, despite being under the care of a government protection programme since witnessing the murder of his father-in-law.