May 6, 2021 – The land rights of the Xokleng, a tribe that was violently expelled from its territory in the 19th and 20th centuries to make way for European colonists, are now the focus of a landmark court case in Brazil. The Xokleng were brutally persecuted and evicted by armed militias to make way […]
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Brazil: The “MinersOutCovidOut” petition calls for expulsion of 20,000 illegal miners from Yanomami Indigenous Territory
December 2, 2020 – A 439,000 signature petition calling on the Brazilian government to prevent the genocide of the Yanomami people will be handed in to Congress in Brasilia on Thursday December 3. When: December 38am EST / 10am BRT / 1pm GMT: Petition hand-in to Federal deputies (online)5pm EST / 7pm BRT / 10pm GMT: Projections of Yanomami images on Brazilian Congress The “MinersOutCovidOut” petition calls […]
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Outrage from Indigenous leaders: notorious ‘Factory School’ for 30,000 children set to host World Congress of Anthropology
July 16, 2020 – Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, activists and anthropologists have denounced plans to hold the 2023 World Congress of Anthropology at the world’s largest “Factory School,” where children are told they are “never fully human.” Protestors have signed an open letter calling on the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and other anthropological bodies […]
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"Brazen and shameless": outrage as controversial Indian mining company opens tribal school
January 14, 2020 – A controversial Indian mining company whose operations threaten lands, forests and sacred sites vital to thousands of tribal families has opened a residential school for tribal children in Odisha, India in an effort to “transform” them. Adani, a $13billion corporation, is embroiled in controversy in India and Australia. In India its […]
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Germany freezes funding to WWF following human rights abuse in Congo
July 25, 2019 – The German government has frozen funding to WWF following a series of investigations by Buzzfeed revealing that the charity funds, equips, and works directly with forces that have tortured, raped and killed people. WWF has repeatedly suppressed accusations of violence and abuse. Earlier this month, BuzzFeed revealed that WWF had kept evidence of gang rape and torture at its German- and US- […]
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American missionary investigated over ‘entering land of uncontacted tribe’
Jan. 21, 2019 – An American missionary is being questioned by Brazilian authorities after he allegedly entered the territory of an uncontacted tribe. Steve Campbell, a missionary with the Greene Baptist Church in Maine, was reportedly questioned by officials from FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, amid reports that he could be tried for […]
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President Bolsonaro “declares war” on Brazil’s indigenous peoples – Survival International responds
Jan. 4, 2019 – Jair Bolsonaro has started his Presidency in the worst possible way for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Taking responsibility for indigenous land demarcation away from FUNAI, the Indian affairs department, and giving it to the Agriculture Ministry is virtually a declaration of open warfare against Brazil’s tribal peoples. Tereza Cristina, the […]
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Stephen Corry: When missionary John Allen Chau decided to visit North Sentinel Island, he put its people in serious danger
Nov. 29, 2018 – Mary Ho, the head of the missionary agency which supported John Chau, is now claiming that he was not a risk to the Sentinelese tribe. She says, “We are talking about a different time here, we’re talking about a time right now when there is modern medicine, when there is antibiotics.” […]
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Survival International statement on killing of American man by Sentinelese tribe, Andaman Islands
Nov. 21, 2018 – An American man, reportedly a missionary, has been killed by members of the Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman Islands, India. Survival International’s Director Stephen Corry said today: “This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen. The Indian authorities should have been enforcing the protection of the Sentinelese and their island […]
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India: Tribe faces eviction from tiger reserve – but uranium exploration approved
June 20, 2017 – Officials in India are threatening to evict a tribe from a tiger reserve in the name of conservation – but have just approved uranium exploration in the same reserve. The move has angered campaigners, who accuse the authorities of hypocrisy. The Chenchu tribe in Amrabad tiger reserve have pleaded to be allowed […]
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Survival International launches boycott of notorious ‘shoot on sight’ National Park
March 2, 2017 – Survival International has launched a boycott of Kaziranga National Park in India – notorious for its “shoot on sight” conservation tactics – beginning this World Wildlife Day (March 3). The boycott will last until the park stops shooting people on sight. Survival has written to 131 tour companies in 10 countries […]
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Peru: Last female speaker of indigenous Amazonian language murdered
December 29, 2016 – The last female speaker of the Resígaro language has been murdered in Peru. Her body was found decapitated at her home in the Amazon rainforest. Rosa Andrade, 67, lived with the Ocaina tribe. Her father was Ocaina and her mother Resígaro. The Ocaina and Resígaro tribes were victims of the rubber […]
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French billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses
Nov. 2, 2016 – Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in human rights abuses against local Baka “Pygmies” and their neighbors, including illegal evictions and torture. The operation is based in two “protected areas” in Cameroon, leased by Benjamin de Rothschild. It offers […]