UN officials have been warned of the imminent threat against the lives of Paraguay’s last remaining uncontacted tribe ahead of their meeting today that will assess the country’s racial discrimination record.

In a report submitted to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Survival has exposed companies involved in the persecution of extremely vulnerable uncontacted Ayoreo.

The Indians are being systematically forced from their homes in the Chaco forest of northern Paraguay to make way for cattle farming.

Ranchers are destroying the Ayoreo’s forests and exposing them to deadly diseases to which they have no immunity.