Indigenous Fellow Imelde Sabushimike calls for protection of the Batwa community and their identity rights as #indigenous peoples in #Burundi. The #Batwa community has historically lived as hunters and gatherers in the equatorial forests of Africa and two decades ago, they lost their native land without integration or compensation to live outside the forests. The drastic lifestyle changes have left the Batwa in a “dungeon of despair”, says Imelde. She believes they should have given them the mechanisms to integrate and survive, but instead they have been “marginalized, oppressed, discriminated against and left to themselves.” More: sm.ohchr.org/18oY8Fo
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:40:26 +0000
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