Heading Towards Extinction?: Indigenous Rights in Africa : the Case of the Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of CongoIWGIA, 2000 - 142 pages Heading Towards Extinction documents and discusses the case of the Twa, so-called "pygmy" people, of the Kahuzi- Biega forests, South Kivu Province in Eastern Congo. Their case is presented in the African context as well as in the context of emerging and established international norms and principles of indigenous peoples' rights. Heading Towards Extinction? is a plea for recognition of the legal rights that the Twa are entitled to as an indigenous people. The book calls for the reform of the assimilationist approach taken by the Congolese government, as well as the agencies involved in managing the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Albert K. Barume is a completing his graduate studies in the Department of Law/Human Rights Center of the University of Essex, United Kingdom. |
Table des matières
List of Acronyms | 8 |
The Political Context | 20 |
The Single Party System | 26 |
Indigenous Peoples In Africa | 32 |
International Instruments | 43 |
The African Indigenous Movement | 50 |
Conservation in Congo | 64 |
Human Pressures on the Park | 71 |
10 | 85 |
20 | 97 |
43 | 104 |
53 | 112 |
Recommendations | 128 |
135 | |
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