West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea and borders the independent country of Papua New Guinea to the East. It is home to around 300 different tribes, including some uncontacted ...

The Kawahiva are a small group of uncontacted Indians living in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. They are the survivors of numerous genocidal attacks. Similar atrocities have wiped out many tribes in the ...

What is your interest in the health of tribal peoples; have you studied anthropology as well as medicine? I have had a very long-term interest in the health of tribal people, ever since I had the ...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called on India to “suspend the implementation of the projects on the Great Nicobar and Andaman Islands until a full and independent ...

This page was last updated in 2022 and may contain language which is now outdated. An Indigenous man known as “The Man of the Hole” has died in Brazil. He was the last member of his tribe, and the ...

An investigation into reports of atrocities by guards employed by Prince Harry’s charity African Parks has acknowledged that multiple abuses took place, confirming allegations of violence made by Baka ...

We, the Indigenous Peoples of the world, are the guardians who have an embedded customary relationship with our lands, waters and territories. Our ecosystems do not belong to us, we belong to them. We ...

This page was last updated in 2022 and may contain language which is now outdated. A devastating new report has revealed the full extent of the crisis in the Yanomami territory caused by a massive ...

This page was last updated in 2011 and may contain language which is now outdated. An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to Britain a ...

This page was last updated in 2014 and may contain language which is now outdated. Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has received worrying reports that illegal ...

Extraordinary new images released today show dozens of uncontacted people in the Peruvian Amazon, just a few miles from a number of logging concessions. Campaigners say they’re a graphic illustration ...

More than 30 members of Indigenous communities from Biliqo Bulesa in Kenya have filed a lawsuit against a carbon credit project on their land run by the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). The Northern ...