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This paper is number 4 of the briefing series Transforming Conservation: from conflict to justice.

Key messages  The report provides an analysis of existing mining legislation in DRC from a rule of law and human rights perspective.

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This paper is number 3 of the briefing series Transforming Conservation: from conflict to justice.

Celebrating Indigenous Languages with the launch of the first ILED Spotlight Publication We are very pleased to present you with the

This paper is number 2 of the briefing series Transforming Conservation: from conflict to justice. From Eastern Congo to the coast of Kenya, “security” crises are used to evict forest peoples, creating greater insecurity in the process. We compare this practice in relation to the Batwa in present day Kahuzi-Biega (DR Congo), the Ogiek in 1980s Mt Elgon (Kenya), the Benet Mosopisyek bopth at Mt Elgon in 2008 (Uganda), and the Aweer in Lamu County from 1963 to 1967 (Kenya).

Community forests were first invoked during the reform of the 1994 forest law in Cameroon.

Between 11 and 29 April 2022, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, at its 106th session, considered the combined 22nd and 23rd reports from the Republic of Cameroon. The review had been postponed from its original planned date of 2020 as a result of the pandemic.

Approaches, challenges and insights through the lens of the national legal framework, practice and stakeholder perceptions: The future of conservation in the territories of life of the Baka indigenous forest people of Ngoyla and sacred forest groves

This report offers alternative information in response to the combined 12th and 13th Kenyan Government’s report submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (‘ACHPR’) pursuant to Article 62 of the African Charter (the ‘Kenyan periodic report’).

Reflections on conservation, natural resources and territory from 16 Baka and Bakwele communities in the vicinity of the proposed Messok Dja protected area, Sangha Department, Republic of Congo.

From Eastern Congo to the coast of Kenya, “security” crises are used to evict forest people, creating greater insecurity in the process. We compare this practice in relation to the Batwa in present day Kahuzi-Biega (DR Congo), the Ogiek in 1980s Mt Elgon (Kenya), the Benet at Mt Elgon in 2008 (Uganda), and the Aweer in Lamu County from 1963 to 1967 (Kenya).

Independent Evaluation of the Lobeke Complaints Mechanism and the functioning of the Mambele Human Rights Centre, East Cameroon  

Independent Evaluation of the effectiveness of current access arrangements for Baka communities around Lobeke National Park, East Cameroon Cameroon’s Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) and the Association Sanguia Baka Buma’a Kpode (ASBABUK) are b

This training was conducted in line with the Keta project’s objective of empowering a new generation of Baka women and men leaders, in a culturally appropriate manner. It is built on the idea that projecting spirituality brings to the forefront the question of identity and self-determination.

Batwa communities around Kahuzi-Biega National Park were displaced in the 1970s by the creation of the Park and have lived in a situation of landlessness and precarity ever since.

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As news of vaccines begins to emerge, signalling at least the beginning of the end of the pandemic that has so altered our ways of living this year, we offer this report as a contribution to understanding the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous and tribal peoples.

In its 67th Ordinary Session, held between 13 November and 3 December 2020, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights examined the combined fourth-sixth periodic reports of the Republic of Cameroon.

The result of a collective and community-led data-gathering exercise relying on the Indigenous Navigator framework and tools, this report identifies and discusses the experiences, needs, concerns and aspirations of indigenous women in 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.