Sengwer Women’s Experiences of Evictions
Since the 1960s, the Sengwer peoples of western Kenya have been experiencing forced evictions from their home in the name of conservation. Since 2014, these evictions have intensified.
Resources
Toolkit on Indigenous women's rights in Africa
Forest Peoples Programme has created this toolkit to help indigenous women in Africa to better understand the African human rights system and how to use it effectively to secure their rights.
Trousse d'information sur les droits des femmes autochtones
Forest Peoples Programme a développé cette trousse d'information pour afin d'aider les femmes autochtones d'Afrique à mieux comprendre le système africain des droits de l'homme et des peuples et les façons de s'impliquer auprès de ses mécanismes pour assurer une meilleure protection de leurs droits.
Toolkit on Indigenous women's rights in Africa - Information Note #7B: Have your voice heard at government level
This Information Note forms part of a Forest Peoples Programme publication entitled Indigenous women’s rights and the African human rights system: a toolkit on mechanisms that was launched at the end of April 2011 during the session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia.
Concluding observations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - Uganda, 22 October 2010
Paragraphs 39-40 contain recommendations towards the rights of Batwa women.
Briefing to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Women in Africa. Regarding indigenous women in Africa
Read the briefing here in English.
Discrimination against indigenous women. Statement by the Forest Peoples Programme to the 41st Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 16-30 May 2007, Accra, Ghana
Delivered by: Ms Treva Braun Coordinator, Africa Legal and Human Rights Programme
Madam Chair, Honourable Commissioners, Distinguished colleagues,
The Health Situation of Women and Children in Central African Pygmy Peoples - May 2006
We are completely neglected and forgotten. Even our wives do not have access to midwives. They are permanently exposed to death because of lack of care during their pregnancy and deliveries. This came with the so-called modern life into which we were dragged. It did not exist when we were living in our natural environment. We had so many plants for such problems... Twa man from Kalehe district, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)[2]