International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’

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.  The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the DRC to provide the Batwa … Continue reading International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’