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...
View ArticleMongolian 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...
View ArticleProgress 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...
View ArticleSurvival 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...
View ArticleProgress 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...
View ArticleRevealed: “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...
View ArticleBREAKING: 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,...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleParaguay'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...
View ArticleProgress 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...
View ArticleSurvival 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...
View ArticleParaguay: 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...
View ArticleVenezuelan 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...
View ArticleRevealed: 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...
View ArticleOils 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...
View Article'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...
View ArticleIndia: 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...
View ArticleSurvival 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...
View ArticlePeru: 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...
View ArticleSurvival 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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