(Français ci-dessous) Eight indigenous Batwa community members involved in the fight to regain access to their traditional lands, now part of Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have been convicted and sentenced to lengthy...
(English below) Plus de 40 organisations de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) se sont engagées à sensibiliser le public à la prévention du virus Ebola dans les communautés pauvres ou marginalisées, y compris les communautés Batwa. L’initiative a...
(En français ci-dessous) Initiative for Equality (IfE) is urgently calling on the agencies of the United Nations, the international community, the national government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the provincial government of Tanganyika Province, DRC,...
(En français ci-dessous) IfE and 12 Batwa rights organizations in our African Great Lakes regional network co-sponsored a Side Event at the 18th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in April of 2019. Deborah Rogers, President of IfE, and Ange Bella...
(En français ci-dessous.) Please join us at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday April 23, Room S-1521 at 1:15 pm (13:15) local time. We will discuss the very difficult situation for women of the Indigenous Twa and Mbuti peoples in the African Great Lakes...
(En français ci-dessous) The Réseau Initiative for Equality (RIFE) of the African Great Lakes region has just released a devastating report documenting massacres and mass rapes committed from 2016 to 2018 against the Indigenous Batwa people in the Province of...
