This joint statement was signed by Amnesty International, Survival International and Minority Rights Group International. The signatory organisations call on the government of Kenya to immediately...
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NGO concerns over the proposed 30% target for protected areas and absence of safeguards for Indigenous Peoples and local communities
One hundred twenty-eight environmental and human rights NGOs and experts today warn that a United Nations drive to increase global protected areas such as national parks could lead to severe human...
UN Indigenous Peoples' Day: Uncontacted Amazon tribe faces annihilation
On UN Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Survival International is calling for the full demarcation and protection of the land of the Kawahiva people, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon that is at extremely...
Ethiopia: Tribe starves as dam and land grabs dry up river
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has received disturbing reports that the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley is starving, as a...
WWF complicit in tribal people’s abuse
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has uncovered serious abuses of Baka “Pygmies” in southeast Cameroon, at the hands of anti-poaching squads supported and funded...
Protestors call for the release of Papuan political prisoners in Indonesia
Around 100 protestors demonstrated today outside the Indonesian embassy in London to call for the unconditional and immediate release of all Papuan political prisoners. 76 of the protestors were...
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Top human rights watchdog investigates Ethiopia and Botswana
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the region’s top human rights body, has called for the forced relocation of thousands of tribal people in Ethiopia to be halted, and has...
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Aid agencies turn blind eye to ‘catastrophe’ in Ethiopia
Three new reports predict disaster in Lower Omo Valley Three independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent ‘catastrophe’ in...
Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on World Food Day
Violent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares...
Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked to controversial dam
Human rights organizations, including Survival International and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controversial...
Revealed: how Ethiopia's plantations are killing vital waterway
New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia's controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. The Omo River downstream from the notorious Gibe III...
Bushmen make a splash on World Water Day
For the first time in ten years, Botswana’s Bushmen are celebrating World Water Day [22 March] as they enjoy unobstructed access to the life-giving substance. Their main desert well was capped shut...
Leaked map reveals Ethiopia’s mass evictions plan
Ethiopian authorities have inadvertently revealed the existence of highly ambitious plans to resettle Lower Omo Valley tribes who stand in the way of a massive plantations scheme. The map was...
Survival uncovers shocking human rights abuses in Ethiopia
Survival International has uncovered shocking new evidence of human rights abuses against tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, as government efforts to develop lucrative sugar cane plantations in the...
Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 35 Colombian tribes
The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival International works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the...
Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve
A Survival International investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopia’s most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and...
Rwanda admits force used in anti-thatch campaign
The official in charge of Rwanda’s controversial policy to eradicate all thatched roofs in the country by the end of this month has admitted that ‘sometimes we apply some force’ . The admission came...
Rwandan 'anti-thatch' campaign leaves thousands of 'Pygmies' homeless
A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa 'Pygmies' homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent...
World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia mega-dam
March 21, 2011 Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa's tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day...
Botswana: Bushmen 'determined' as legal battle over water approaches climax
On January 17th, Botswana's Court of Appeal will begin a hearing to decide whether Kalahari Bushmen living on their ancestral lands have the right to water. The Bushmen, who returned to their lands...