• Apr 5 2013
  • 4:43pm
Urgent Actions for April
Urgent Actions support individuals in immediate danger around the world by flooding the relevant authorities with faxes, emails, telegrams and letters. Please help us if you can.
  • Mar 2 2012
  • 6:00pm
Good news! Mexican human rights defender released (update to UA 62/12)
Mexico - Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez
  • Feb 24 2012
  • 5:51pm
ACTION: Mexican Human Rights Defender Arrested (UA 62/12)
Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez is a human rights defender who defends the rights of Indigenous people.
  • Feb 5 2011
  • 7:04pm
Uncontacted tribe given protection by Peru's government
John Vidal says in his Environment Blog for the Guardian that the widely circulated 
  • Oct 22 2010
  • 1:58pm
Mexico's Indian Rebellion on Unreported World, Channel 4
Unreported World on Channel 4 on Friday showed us
  • Dec 15 2009
  • 11:49am
Happy birthday to Survival International
Survival International, "the movement for tribal peoples", celebrates its 40th birthday this month.
  • Oct 7 2009
  • 11:57am
Untouchables
I noticed a debate on the BBC World Service website about Untouchables and the caste system in India.  Is this system an abuse of human rights and should the internationa...
  • Jul 9 2009
  • 3:50pm
Uighurs not allowed to protest
In the north-west region of Xinjiang the Uighur people are angry that the Chinese authorities did not act to protect migrant Uighur workers in the south-east of China.  That s...
  • Feb 24 2009
  • 1:49pm
Languages threatened around the world
UNESCO has produced an online
  • Apr 15 2008
  • 12:31am
Australian PMs apology to aborigine people
Kevin Rudd has not been the Prime Minister of Australia for long and may not be familiar yet in Britain.  You may have seen pictures of him conventionally suited, a strange co...