Kiss of Life for Pygmies in DR Congo

Across the Congo Basin, indigenous peoples are a marginalised minority. They often provide the workforce in the fields for others, exploited and sometimes paid in kind.

Destruction caused by logging in DR Congo.

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Kiss of Life for Pygmies

    IPS, 21 April 2011

    "Most of the houses in our villages are still made with small branches that we have collected, while our timber and our medicinal plants are taken by people who are enriching… Read more »

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