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The Batwa of south west Uganda number only a few thousand people and are one of the hunter-gatherer and ex-hunter-gatherer peoples collectively known as the forest peoples (or ‘Pygmies’) of the Central African rainforests.

BOOK AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM FPP OFFICE: info@forestpeoples.orgThe Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park were evicted from their traditional lands in the name of wildlife conservation. This book details their case in both the African context and that of emerging and established international norms and principles of indigenous peoples' rights.ISBN 87-90730-31-3   142 pages   Published by FPP and IWGIA

Submitted by Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Réseau Recherches Actions Concertées Pygmées (RACOPY) and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

BOOK AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM FPP OFFICE: info@forestpeoples.orgThe forest communities of Gabon, the Congo and the Central African Republic have been undermined by slave wars, conquest, forced resettlement and extractive industries. The report shows how they have been deprived of control over their ancestral forests and left defenceless against foreign-dominated timber companies.ISBN 9679998762    75 pages    Paperback   1993