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Racist of the Year Award winner announced

Fernando Furtado, Survival's Racist of the Year 2015, addresses the Maranhao state assembly© Agência AssembleiaSurvival International today announced the winner of the Racist of the Year Award 2015 as...

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Mongolian reindeer herders banned from hunting in the name of 'conservation'

The Dukha are hunters not poachers, but are now being prosecuted for hunting on their ancestral lands. © Selcen Kucukustel/Magma magazineThe nomadic reindeer-herding Dukha tribe of northern Mongolia...

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Progress can Kill: Survival report reveals world's highest suicide rate

Suicide is often seen as the only option by people forced from their land and into a way of life they did not choose© João Ripper/SurvivalA new report published by Survival International reveals that...

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Survival launches annual tribal photography competition

2016's stunning winning entry, Bajau, Malaysia, 2013 © Soh Yew Kiat© Soh Yew Kiat /Survival InternationalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – is proud to announce...

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Progress Can Kill: HIV 'epidemic' strikes Venezuelan Indians

An HIV epidemic is decimating the Warao tribe in Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalExperts have revealed that an HIV“epidemic” is decimating the Warao tribe in Venezuela.The news is a shocking...

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Revealed: “Pygmy” children paid in glue and alcohol

Forced from their forest homes, many central African hunter-gatherer tribes face exploitation on the fringes of mainstream society© C. Fornellino Romero/SurvivalTribal children in the African...

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BREAKING: Tribe attacked by gunmen in Brazil

Gunmen attacking another Guarani community in Mato Grosso do Sul, 2014© Aty Guasu/SurvivalA Brazilian tribal community is being attacked by a large number of gunmen in southern Brazil.The gunmen,...

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Will Botswana government's U-turn on Bushmen last?

Bushmen children now must apply for permits to stay with their families when they turn 18 – or risk 7 years in prison.© Forest Woodward / Survival, 2015The Botswana government has promised to restore...

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Paraguay's Indians see 14 million trees cut down in one month

Eroi was forced out of his forest in 1986. He was a shaman, but he stopped because the missionaries told him that shamanism was the work of the devil. © Gerald Henzinger/SurvivalA new report has...

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Progress can kill: shocking photos highlight tribes' health crisis

Warwick Thornton photographed his relatives to bring attention to the appalling health problems affecting Aboriginal communities© Warwick Thornton/ Anna Schwartz Gallery (Shanika, 2015 Pigment print on...

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Survival International accuses WWF of involvement in violence and abuse

Forced out of the forest, many Baka communities complain of a serious decline in their health. Living on the roadside, they are increasingly exposed to malaria and other diseases.© Survival...

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Paraguay: Government ordered to protect uncontacted tribe

Contact with the outside world has been a very traumatic experience for many Ayoreo, exposing them to life-threatening diseases© GAT 2004The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered...

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Venezuelan Indians attacked amidst mining mayhem

Many tribes in Venezuela have suffered the terrible effects of illegal mining on their land (Hoti tribesperson)© Jacques Jangoux/SurvivalYabarana Indians in the Amazon region of Venezuela were...

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Revealed: Brazil's most corrupt politician targets uncontacted tribe

José Riva, a former state deputy, has been labelled the most corrupt politician in Brazil.© Local mediaSurvival International can reveal that a rancher targeting the land of an uncontacted tribe in the...

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Oils spills in Peruvian Amazon devastate indigenous communities

Dozens of Peruvian tribes have seen their territories opened up to oil companies© Johan Wildhagen/SurvivalIndigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have suffered from three oil spills in two...

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'First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon' – Survival responds to new documentary

Still from footage of a recently contacted Sapanawa man, featured in the documentary© Channel Four/ Ronachan FilmsA documentary broadcast in the UK yesterday, entitled “First contact: Lost Tribe of the...

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India: Tribe set to resume David & Goliath battle with mining corporation

The Dongria unanimously rejected the mining project and have vowed to protect the Niyamgiri hills© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalA tribe in eastern India are facing a new threat from mining on their ancestral...

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Survival calls for end to Botswana’s Bushman "apartheid”

Most Bushmen are still forced to live in government resettlement camps, rather than on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve© Dominick TylerSurvival International has launched a campaign...

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Peru: Mercury poisoning “epidemic” sweeps tribe

A huge proportion of the Nahua tribe have been affected by the poisoning, which causes anemia and acute kidney problems© Johan WildhagenUp to 80% of a recently-contacted tribe in Peru have been...

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Survival reports Italian corporation to OECD over dam disaster

Up to half a million people face starvation as a result of the dam Salini has constructed on the Omo river.© Magda Rakita/SurvivalSurvival International has reported Italian engineering giant Salini to...

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