Minorities Under Siege: Pygmies today in Africa - IRIN

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We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect
people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
Refugees International
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/
Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced
people around the world and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
The Rain Forest Foundation
http://www.rainforestfoundation.org/
Founded in 1989, the Rainforest Foundation US is a non-profit organization based in New York. It is
dedicated to protecting the rights of rainforest groups who find their traditional lands and human
rights threatened.
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Forest Peoples Project
http://www.forestpeoples.org/project_index.shtml
The Forest Peoples Project’s long-term goal is improved social, economic and environmental conditions
for indigenous and tribal forest peoples. We are working towards this goal by helping forest
peoples defend their rights, develop sustainable livelihood skills, engage with policy makers and
strengthen their organisational capacity.
The Baka Project
http://baka.sitewala.net/english/
The Baka Project was initiated in 1990 by Father Sergio Janeselli. The goal of the project is emancipation
of the Baka Pygmies in their traditional environment — camps in their forest. The project is
active in the regions of Djoum and Kribi in the South Province of Cameroon.
Agencies Articles of Interest
Peoples of the Forest
http://survival-international.org/pdf/pygmybg.pdf
Discrimination and the ‘Pygmy’
http://www.survival-international.org/related_material.php?id=20
The Batwa Pygmies of the Great Lakes Region
http://www.minorityrights.org/Profiles/profile.asp?ID=4
Batwa Land Rights in Rwanda
http://www.minorityrights.org/dev/mrg_dev_title11_batwa/mrg_dev_title11_batwa_pf.htm
Batwa lifestyles and identity
http://www.minorityrights.org/Dev/mrg_dev_title11_batwa/mrg_dev_title11_batwa_1.htm
Twa Women, Twa Rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
http://www.minorityrights.org/OnlineReports/OnlineReport.asp?ID=35
‘Erasing the Board’
http://www.minorityrights.org/OnlineReports/OnlineReport.asp?ID=37
Report of the international research mission into crimes under international law committed against
the Bambuti Pygmies in the eastern Democrati Republic of Congo
Public Participation and Minorities
http://www.minorityrights.org/OnlineReports/OnlineReport.asp?ID=17
Rwanda
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/rwanda12286.htm
Forgotten People: The Batwa ‘Pygmy’ of the great lakes Region of Africa
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/892/
Promoting Pygmy Peoples Rights
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-Promoting%20Pygmy%20Peoples%20Rights
Africa
http://www.forestpeoples.org/templates/project/africa_base.shtml
Scholarly articles and Case Studies
Ethnographic summary of several various groups of hunter-gatherers of the Ituri Forest of West
Africa.
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7865
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