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Au niveau des droits socio-economiques, les Batwa du Burundi se disent marginalises, surtout dans l'acces aux soins de sante, a l'education, a l'habitat decent et a la terre dans un pays ou 90% de la population menent des activites agricoles.

Burundi : Percee politique des peuples autochtones

Many Batwa Pygmies noted in the focus group discussions that they are often uncomfortable to voice their concerns in meetings held at the residence of the customary chief.

The participation illusion: questioning community participation in a REDD+ pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo/L'illusion de la participation: mise en question de la participation communautaire dans un projet pilote REDD+ dans la Republique democratique du Congo/La ilusion de la participacion: el cuestionamiento de la participacion comunitaria en un proyecto piloto de REDD+ en la Republica Democratica del Congo

In ethno-archaeological terms, Klieman (2003) suggests that, despite the autochthony of the Batwa, it is impossible to separate them from other forest dwellers.

The pygmy mimic

first months of 2015 by Batwa fighters, who killed and kidnapped

Dozens of Pygmies killed in inter-ethnic violence in Congo

and with the agreement of the Batwa, to offer them adequate land ...

A dark side of virtue: the Inter-American Court and reparations for indigenous peoples

Originally just for the small Batwa population, the hospital now reaches more than 100,000 people per year in a 190-squarekilometer area.

Seeing the forest for the trees: how "one health" connects humans, animals, and ecosystems

While such peoples exist (for example, the Maasai of Kenya; the Karamojong and Batwa of Uganda; and the native-settler relationship existing in certain parts of southern Africa), these groups are not sufficiently representative of the vulnerability that defines a large demographic in most African states.

Investigating the failure of resettlement and rehabilitation in development projects: a critical analysis of the World Bank's policy on involuntary resettlement using lessons from Uganda's Bujagali hydroelectric project

For example, it was revealed that there was a belief among some men that sleeping with women from Batwa tribe cures chronic backache and protects one from contracting HIV/AIDS.

Women in the parliament of Uganda, 2001-2011: striving to influence legislations to improve the status of women

(9) According to conversions of indigenous Batwa, Ogoni and Masai, this experience is general in Africa, adding the expropriation of their lands by missionary denominations who focused on larger ethnic groups.

For the sun heats up again

A 100-member directly elected National Assembly plus additional deputies appointed as necessary to ensure an ethnic and gender composition of 60% Hutu, 40% Tutsi, 30% female, and 3 Batwa members.

Background note: Burundi

The native inhabitants of pre-colonial Burundi were Batwa (Twa) who are a sub-clan of the Twide pygmies.

Ethnic conflict and state formation in post-colonial Africa: a comparative study of ethnic genocide in the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Rwanda-Burundi