Topic: Cultural Anthropology
Indigenous people have 20 years less life expectancy: UN
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Indigenous people have up to 20 years less life expectancy than non-indigenous people in their countries, a UN report released Thursday said.</p><p>Poverty, malnutrition and various infectious diseases conspire to cut their lives shorter, said the report, which ...
Amazon Indian tribe hit by swine flu
Reuters Life! Online Report
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday.</p><p>A further 1,000 members of the Yanomami tribe in ...
Iraqi minority refugees in jeopardy, report says
Reuters US Online Report World News
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Refugees from Iraq's minorities face insecurity and risk losing their religious and cultural identity as they seek refuge in neighboring countries and Western Europe, a minority rights group said on Thursday.</p><p>The United Nations refugee ...
Secret of the 'lost' tribe that wasn't
guardian.co.uk
<div><p>They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an '<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/brazil.conservation">undiscovered tribe</a>' in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border ...
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