Climate Change
International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’
The landmark decision from the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the Democratic Republic of Congo to give Indigenous Batwa peoples title to their ancestral lands.
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 imposed a national park on those lands without the original inhabitants’ consent.
International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’