human rights Archives - Well Grounded

Complaint abandoned, but systematic human rights violations continue for indigenous Baka communities in Cameroon

admin2022-03-11T13:45:10+00:00March 15th, 2018|

In September 2017, Survival International announced that it had withdrawn from OECD mediation with WWF, following its 2016 complaint lodged against them in relation to (inter alia) mistreatment of the Baka in Cameroon connected with its conservation activities. While Survival International's formal complaint might be at an end, the serious abuses of indigenous peoples’ human rights associated with conservation activities in Cameroon (and elsewhere) are persistent, real and ongoing, and reflect fundamental problems with the approach of many large conservation actors. At an international level, there has been a longstanding engagement by leading conservationists in support of human rights (often provoked [...]

Diversity and Inclusion: Human rights in the community forestry process in the DRC

admin2022-03-11T13:45:09+00:00March 2nd, 2018|

Securing local communities and indigenous peoples’ rights is a major challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The situation of Human Rights is among the most critical in the world. The rule of law is applied erratically and the goods, including land, are regularly stolen. Laws that favour a potential recognition of traditional practices and rights of rural populations often remain hollow. However, Community forestry, a set of procedures, modalities and practices relative to forest management by local communities in view of their socio-economic development, has been adopted as one of the forest management modes in the DRC. Thanks to [...]