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===Indigenous rights=== In late 2010, Anderson and other artists joined a campaign to boycott [[Botswana]] diamonds over the government's treatment of the Kalahari [[San people|San]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afran.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5656|title=Celebrities boycott Botswana over Bushmen|date=November 8, 2010|work=AFRAN Study and Research Institute|access-date=September 11, 2015|archive-date=October 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005221518/http://www.afran.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5656|url-status=dead}}</ref> Anderson supports tribal rights charity [[Survival International]], an organization that champions tribal peoples around the world and in early 2010 she participated in a performance in a London stage fundraiser for its cause.<ref name=Tribal>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5623|title=Stars line up in West End to celebrate tribal peoples|date= March 9, 2010|work= Survival International|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> In February 2011, Anderson narrated a short film about recent footage of an [[uncontacted tribe]], in which the Amazon Indians were spotted from the air on the [[Brazil]]-[[Peru]] border. Anderson has said: "What comes across powerfully from this amazing footage is how healthy and confident these people appear. I hope they can be left alone β but that will only happen if the loggers are stopped."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage|title=First ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released|date=February 4, 2011|work=uncontactedtribes.org|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-date=June 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617214826/http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June 2011, Anderson became an ambassador for Survival International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7364|title=Gillian Anderson becomes Survival ambassador|date=June 13, 2011|work=Survival International|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> In September 2015, Anderson was among the artists who signed a letter calling for a new approach to conservation that would respect tribal peoples' rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10900|title= Celebrities call for a new conservation that respects tribal peoples' rights|date= September 9, 2015|work= Survival International|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref>
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