Goldminers in Venezuela have carried out a massacre of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Survival International.

Brazil’s Guarani Indians are to take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land.

A ruling by India’s Supreme Court which would have curtailed ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities.

The Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes.