Advocacy group Refugees International (RI) has published a report highlighting the increasing social, economic, and political problems that continue to face the Batwa pygmies, an indigenous hunter-gatherer people inhabiting the forests of central Africa. Though RI is working to persuade countries in this region to recognize the rights of the Batwa people, they must counter savage stereotypes, neighboring wars, and violations of land ownership that have reduced the Batwa people’s status to “subhuman.”
