About 250,000 supporters from nearly 100 countries have helped Survival International financially millions now routinely seek our information, published in seven languages. Survival will not take national government money, because governments are the main violators of tribal peoples’ rights, nor will it takes money from companies which might be abusing tribal peoples. It works with hundreds of tribal communities and organizations and is funded almost entirely by concerned members of the public and some foundations. Survival International is the only organization working for tribal peoples’ rights worldwide. Through the submitted project Survival International aims at breaking the silence by helping Awà take their message to the outside world. ![]() The anticipated outcome is that invaders be removed from Awá land. This project received a grant from the Nando Peretti Foundation. A short ‘update’ video on the Awà problems to be circulated worldwide also through the Internet is planned. The project foresees a short field trip to meet the Awá and investigate what the situation is on the ground. A letter writing campaign, a submission to the Inter American Court on Human Rights, a variety of public demonstrations, actions and protests as well as targeted press coverage will bring international attention to the plight of the Awá. This will be achieved by a sustained public campaign aimed at pressuring the Minister into action. ![]() Survival International will target the Brazilian Minister of Justice to send federal police and provide funding to local police to remove invaders. As one of the last remaining nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples of the Amazon, the Awá will not survive without their forest. Survival International is now campaigning for the Brazilian government to ensure that the boundaries of the Awá’s lands are respected, and to remove invaders as a matter of urgency. Its work is rooted in direct contact with the tribe.Īlthough the Awá’s territory has been demarcated, the Awá are at threat from loggers, settlers and ranchers that are illegally entering and occupying their land. Through the submitted project Survival International aims at breaking this silence by helping them take their message to the outside world. Their own experience is the most persuasive testimony in their defence – that is why governments strive to deny them their voice. Survival strongly believes that tribal peoples such as the Awá must be allowed to speak for themselves. The axis of International Survival’s campaign for the Awá Tribe therefore rests on placing significant pressure on the government that it feels it must act, in the deep belief that changing public attitudes contributes significantly to changing government attitudes. Its support of the Awá is paramount to their survival. Only the Brazilian government, more specifically the Ministry of Justice, has the power to evict the loggers, ranchers and settlers that are illegally occupying and deforesting Awá territory. ![]() The perpetrators know that they are unlikely to face justice. There is a culture of impunity in which violence against the country’s indigenous and tribal peoples flourishes. In many ways, northeast Brazil is like the ‘Wild West’: a lawless frontier. The theft of a tribal people’s land engenders destitution once self-sufficient communities are forced to rely on food hand-outs malnutrition and illness soar and life expectancy is drastically reduced.įurthermore, Awá people are sometimes imprisoned, attacked or murdered in order to get them off their land. The tribe utilizes products of the forest in their day-to-day life, using palm leaves to make shelters, clothing and baby carriers, resin from trees to make fires and plants to cure a number of illnesses. They are hunter-gatherers, relying solely on the Amazon as a food source. In fact, they are losing their forest home to illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and colonists who keep murder tribe members.įirst discovered in the mid-1970s, 360 surviving members of the Awa tribe are currently in contact with the outside world, with a further 60-100 believed to be taking refuge in the forests. Only few hundreds of them still survive in the Brazilian Amazon, where they face extinction due to illegal deforestation. The Awá are one of the last remaining nomadic tribes of the Amazon, as well as the most endangered one. This project that aims at helping the Awá tribal people defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own future, by raising global awareness of their current risk of extinction and catalysing the global concern into action.
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