WWF published ‘Embedding Human Rights into Nature Conservation: from Intent to Action’, a report from an Independent Panel it commissioned last year to review WWF’s role in relation to reported human rights abuses by some government rangers in the most complex and remote areas where it works. The Panel, chaired by former UN High Commissioner… Continue reading WWF commissioned report acknowledges human rights abuses in WWF projects
Tag: Central African Republic
Widespread abuse funded by big conservation organizations
A new Survival International report details widespread and systematic human rights abuses in the Congo Basin, by wildlife guards funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other big conservation organizations. The report documents serious instances of abuse between 1989 and the present day in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic (CAR) by guards… Continue reading Widespread abuse funded by big conservation organizations
Central African Republic: An inside look into the social media world of diamond smuggling
A new undercover investigation by Global Witness shows how diamond smugglers are making use of social media platforms as they seek to get diamonds linked to the ongoing violent conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) out of the country and into international markets. “A Game of Stones” reveals how the tools of the digital… Continue reading Central African Republic: An inside look into the social media world of diamond smuggling
Children paid in moonshine and glue for cleaning toilets in central Africa
Children in the African rainforests have been paid in glue to sniff, and alcohol, in return for menial work Market traders in the Republic of Congo plying children from the Bayaka tribe with glue in 2013, in exchange for cleaning out latrines. In Cameroon Baka tribespeople, illegally evicted from their forest homes, are often paid… Continue reading Children paid in moonshine and glue for cleaning toilets in central Africa