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First provincial round table on community forestry takes place in DRC

First provincial round table on community forestry takes place in DRC

October 20, 2017
by Robert Sangster-Poole
DRC, News, République Democratique du Congo (RDC)

Around 90 participants travelled to Mbandaka in north western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September to take part in the first ever provincial Roundtable on Community Forestry. The event was organised by Congolese NGO, Centre d’Appui à la Gestion Durable des Forêts Tropicales (CAGDFT) with support from the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and the UK Department for International Development (DfID). It…

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Proposed changes to World Bank safeguard policies will undermine decades of advances in indigenous peoples’ rights

Proposed changes to World Bank safeguard policies will undermine decades of advances in indigenous peoples’ rights

August 9, 2014
by Peter
Congo Basin

As the United Nations (UN), prepares to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples  tomorrow, August 9, the rights of the world’s indigenous peoples are now under greater threat from new policies being promoted by the World Bank, the  international financial institution that provides funding  for projects in developing  countries.  The Bank has recently unveiled a new set of…

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Interactive Map: new data - Indigenous peoples in the Congo Basin

Interactive Map: new data – Indigenous peoples in the Congo Basin

June 16, 2014
by Peter
Congo Basin

Although no reliable census exists, it is estimated that there are between 500-700,000 indigenous people in the Congo Basin who are divided into more than 26 distinct ethnic groups with differing customs and languages. Collectively referred to as “Pygmies”, such groups are to varying degrees characterised by a high level of forest dependency and may cover significant areas in order…

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"We are going to live like birds... without a place to put our feet" - The growing pressures on forests and indigenous people in Cameroon

“We are going to live like birds… without a place to put our feet” – The growing pressures on forests and indigenous people in Cameroon

May 2, 2014
by Joe Eisen
Cameroon

Jeanne Noah, a Bagyeli leader from Cameroon, relates how her community’s ancestral forest is threatened by a large scale rubber production project. On top of this, Jeanne explains, neighbouring Bantu communities claim as their own the little forest area which is not already under the company’s control. As the Bagyeli’s access to the forest, their home and sustenance, is increasingly…

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Challenges for securing land rights of indigenous people in the Congo Basin - Jerome Lewis, UCL

Challenges for securing land rights of indigenous people in the Congo Basin – Jerome Lewis, UCL

March 11, 2014
by Joe Eisen
Cameroon, Republic of Congo

Indigenous, hunter-gatherer peoples of the Congo Basin have a unique perception of the use of land. Their systems aim at ensuring abundance of forest resources and equal distribution among the people living in those forests. Dr. Jerome Lewis, Lecturer in Anthropology at UCL, talks about the need to take this vision into account to secure indigenous peoples’ right to the…

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RFUK research in Republic of Congo reveals vulnerability of indigenous forest communities to climate change

RFUK research in Republic of Congo reveals vulnerability of indigenous forest communities to climate change

December 16, 2013
by Joe Eisen
République du Congo

New research from RFUK, Congolese NGO Forum pour la Gouvernance et les Droits de l’Homme (FGDH) and other indigenous peoples organisations shows that forest communities and indigenous peoples in the Congo Basin already believe they are experiencing the impacts of climate change. Participatory research carried out with local communities in the remote northern province of Likouala, used a number of…

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Film: Ndima – Mapping Our Future

Film: Ndima – Mapping Our Future

November 18, 2013
by Rainforest Foundation UK
CAR

RFUK and MEFP, in collaboration with film maker Luis Leitao, have launched a new film on how the BaAka in the Central African rainforests are making their voices heard through participatory mapping. In order to raise awareness of the problems faced by indigenous forest communities in the Congo Basin, and the role that participatory mapping can play in resolving these,…

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RFUK publishes first national legal study on ILO Convention No. 169 in CAR

RFUK publishes first national legal study on ILO Convention No. 169 in CAR

February 17, 2012
by Peter
Uncategorized

The Central African Republic (CAR) ratified the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples in August 2010, becoming the first African country to adopt the Convention. This historic development for indigenous peoples in the country and on the continent places an obligation on the CAR Government to ensure that national laws and policies are coherent…

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