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11.03.2007
Bangladesh security forces arrested two more ethnic minority leaders in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - home to distinct minority communities - this week, part of a growing number of arrests since January, according to an international group fighting for the rights of tribal peoples.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Bangladesh]
21.02.2007
The Jarawa tribe of Andaman Islands could be "wiped out" unless the Indian government acts to protect them, a report warns as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination prepares to discuss India’s record.
+ Canadian tribe reaches out to Jarawa
Story link+ Canadian tribe reaches out to Jarawa
Related topics/regions: [India]
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13.02.2007
Six Bushmen have been arrested, starved and held for six days after police and wildlife guards accused them of hunting in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana - only two months after a landmark court victory ruled that the Bushmen have a constitutional right to remain on their ancestral land.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Botswana]
25.01.2007
A BBC film to be broadcast on 1 February documents an expedition to make first contact with an isolated tribe in West Papua - and asks whether such people really exist. Survival estimates that approximately 107 uncontacted tribes exist worldwide - and all are threatened with extinction.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [United Kingdom]
24.01.2007
The deployment of large numbers of Indonesian soldiers to the Punkak Jaya region of West Papua in response to the killing of two soldiers has caused an estimated 5,000 tribespeople to flee into the jungle.
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