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…
1991- 94 The Ogiek ancestral lands were opened up for settlement besides the opening of closed schools and gazetting of locations and wards. Exodus of the new settlers to the Ogiek…
Forest Peoples Programme was alarmed to learn of events occurring at Chepyuk Forest, on the slopes of Mount Elgon. According to the reports we have received, the indigenous Ogiek community living…
Despite the pledge in November 2003 by the DRC government to root out Hutu rebel elements, ‘Pygmy’ communities in north and south Kivu are reporting increased attacks…
In response to the submission made to CERD in June 2006 regarding widespread, persistent and systematic violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination against…
Madam Chair, Honourable Commissioners, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for this opportunity to address the Commission on behalf of the Forest Peoples Programme. May I first commend…
Mr Huguet Antoine Head of Forest and Wood Department EUROCERTIFOR - BVQI 60 avenue du Général de Gaulle 92046 Paris La Défense Cedex France [email protected]…
Fergal Keane of the BBC is in Cameroon meeting Baka Indigenous Peoples who are using new technology to document their traditional use of forests, to map their lands and to…
