In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from the Kahuzi-Biega National Park was a ...

The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country's biggest national parks ...

This is the reality for many Indigenous Batwa villages and rural areas across the country — without access to the electric grid, they must turn to the forest for sources of energy. Yet solar ...

Both of these reductive stereotypes are often repeated, but neither gives the whole picture. A new study that examines the treatment of the Indigenous Batwa tribe in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Tuesday released a landmark decision declaring that the displacement of the indigenous Batwa people from their ancestral lands within the ...

Africa’s top human rights commission said the Democratic Republic of Congo violated the rights of Indigenous Batwa people when it forcibly evicted them from their ancestral territories and ...

In a historic decision, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights ruled that the DRC government’s forcible eviction of the indigenous Batwa community within the Kahuzi Biega National Park ...

The finding, including recent analysis of forest loss in parts of the park where Indigenous Batwa people returned, challenges simple but competing narratives that the region’s Batwa people are ...

G.N.Miller/NYPost The park was created from the ancestral lands of indigenous tribes such as the Batwa, whose people were forced out in the 1970s, according to court papers. After decades of ...