May 12, 2019 | News
(En français ci-dessous) IfE and 12 Batwa rights organizations in our African Great Lakes regional network co-sponsored a Side Event at the 18th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in April of 2019. Deborah Rogers, President of IfE, and Ange Bella...
Apr 19, 2019 | News
(En français ci-dessous.) Please join us at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday April 23, Room S-1521 at 1:15 pm (13:15) local time. We will discuss the very difficult situation for women of the Indigenous Twa and Mbuti peoples in the African Great Lakes...
Apr 16, 2019 | News
(En français ci-dessous) The Réseau Initiative for Equality (RIFE) of the African Great Lakes region has just released a devastating report documenting massacres and mass rapes committed from 2016 to 2018 against the Indigenous Batwa people in the Province of...
Mar 20, 2019 | News
Members of IfE’s International Batwa Support Committee (IBSC) met in mid-March to develop plans for an international campaign to demand an end to the massacres and other atrocities against the Batwa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjacent...
Feb 28, 2019 | News
All around the world, IfE’s Field Hearings report to us that poor and marginalized people are disempowered when those with wealth use their political influence to generate more opportunities to enrich themselves, and block access to resources and opportunities by...
Jan 10, 2019 | News
The Initiative for Equality (IfE) Board of Advisors held its annual elections in December of 2018, electing five people to the Board of Directors, and 15 people to the Board of Advisors for 2019. The Board of Directors now includes: Roberto P. Guimaraes...
