UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya has called on the Botswana government to take 'urgent' action on water for the Bushmen in his recent report. He shed light on the government’s harassment of the Bushmen and Bakgalagadi tribes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, who even after winning a 2006 High Court ruling which stated that their eviction from the reserve was illegal, continue to face abuse, especially by being denied access to water.

After taking part in the February 11th press conference on community radio organized by Cultural Survival, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech, Frank La Rue filed a case in Guatemala’s Constitutional Court against the government claiming that the existing telecommunications law is in violation of freedom of expression and speech guaranteed in the Guatemalan Constitution.