In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 - [...]
Botswana's government is once again threatening the Kgeikani Kweni, the First Peoples of the Kalahari. According to a report by Survival International, yesterday, the government sent truckloads of police and wildlife scouts to their territory in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) to confiscate all of their goats. This is quite serious since the Kgeikani [...]
In the month's Underreported Struggles: 20,000 Lepchas Vow to Die for Their Community; Nicaragua Recognizes Indigenous Land Rights; Dam workers attack the Enawene Nawe; and 18 other stories about the ongoing, world-side struggle for land, rights, and life. December 29 - Indonesia Police Destroy Indigenous Village - Indonesian police forces have violently evicted 400 indigenous [...]
Following their return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve last month, the diamond company De Beers has announced that it will no longer pursue mining or exploration activities in the region. The announcement comes just a couple weeks after Survival International found out that the company had returned to the reserve in Botswana, and relaunched [...]
December 13th marked the first anniversary of the Kgeikani Kweni's (First People of the Kalahari) landmark victory in Botswana’s High Court. As relayed in the following video produced shortly after the victory, the court ruled the government’s eviction of the Kgeikani Kweni was ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’, and that they have the right to live, hunt, [...]
Survival International has released a report comparing the arguments used to justify the dispossession of the Kalahari Bushmen from their land, with the arguments used to defend the transatlantic slave trade. This comparison may come as a shock to some, but the rhetoric in both cases is profoundly similar. Incidentally, it is also the same [...]
Nearing the beginning of July, twenty-one Gana and Gwi Bushmen were arrested for hunting on their traditional lands in Botswana. This despite the High Court of Botswana ruling that the Gana and Gwi have the right to live on their land, and that the government acted against the law when they were evicted from their [...]