WPIO Mission

Mission: The World Peasants/Indigenous Organization promotes democracy, advocates to stop discrimination against the Indigenous and stop corruption and exploitation of the resources on their land and encourages fair trade among indigenous and others communities . It works to create awareness among the indigenous populations and empower them. The World Peasants/ Indigenous Organization teaches the surrounding communities about human rights and have the peasants protect the indigenous communities and works to get indigenous peoples to benefit from public facilities like education and health care etc.

Breaking News:
Our motto (2006-2012):
-To promote democracy and human rights in the Indigenous communities and the peasants communities living on their surroundings;
- To see indigenous living in a world free of corruption with fair trade for good socio-cultural/political and economic development;
- To see pygmies and other indigenous respected and having equal life with other communities without all kind of forms of slavery and exploitations.

Advocacy:
World Peasants/Indigenous Organization has started a cultural exchange program between the indigenous population and the peasants in their region.
Seminars to train indigenous community leaders in empowerment and awareness.
Launched sustainable life education program in the DRC with the support of the UN and Other Human Rights Organizations.


Social Change:
-Promote Democracy through Civic Education among Indigenous,
-Link Indigenous with Peasants for the best human rights Education in communities,
-Discourage all kinds of corruption through suitable education,
-Denounce and condemn all Human Rights Violation Against Indigenous;
-Conduct Civic Education& Sustainable life Education for indigenous;
-Conduct Civic Human Rights Education among Peasants;
-Conduct Peace Education among Indigenous and Peasants through the culture/social exchanges and understanding based on mutual dialogs.
-We also encourage, defend and promote Indigenous and Peasants Initiatives.


WHY THE SUSTAINABLE LIFE EDUCATION AMONG INDIGENOUS AND THE SOURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

1.For pygmies and other Indigenous who live in the forests in central African countries
The Aims of the sustainable life/cultural Education are: a)to train Indigenous on how they can adopt to normal life through peasantry activities;
b)to create awareness and empower them;
c)to teach the communities leaving around Indigenous about Human Rights for them to be able to protect Indigenous.
2. to Organize exchange programs between Indigenous and peasants
The Aims of the exchange programs between Indigenous and peasants or communities living around them is to create positive approaches on acceptance, Integration leading to common life between Indigenous and other communities living near them and all this always based on the culture of mutual talks and understanding.

For pygmies and other Indigenous, the sustainable life Education has got as second purpose to teach Human Rights to prevent domestic violence’s in indigenous families.

This program will again be important for pygmies because through this program we are able to identify problems faced by Indigenous vis-à-vis the surrounding communities and governments.

We have slightly started all this programs but we are experiencing problems due to the lack of funds.
We have also planed a training of trainers and workshops for next year if funds come in. This training of trainers is to train indigenous and peasants Leaders so that in turn they can train their Communities (people) on how to over come different challenges faced by all these communities. It will have also aim to create an awareness and empower Indigenous Communities.

Contact us:

World Peasants/Indigenous Organisation
C/o Amnesty International regional Office for Africa
Plot 20A Kawalya Kaggwa Close, kololo
PO.BOX 23966 Kampala/Uganda
Tel:(+256)712 117 438/712 920 122
Fax:+256 (0)312 350 230/240
Email :wpio.org@gmail.com

Indigenous Minority Human Rights Abuses in and Around the Equatorial Forest in the Central Africa(DRC, Cameroon,Gabon, Central Republic,Congo Braz.,..

Background
Perhaps there is no better way of describing the Human Rights violations aiganst the peasants/indigenous than to highlight Robert Chambers thoughts,.. I quote: Poor people are rarely met; when they are met, they often do not speak; when they do speak, they are often cautious and deferential; and what they say is often either not listened to, or brushed aside, or interpreted in a bad light. “C Robert Chambers (1983)”

INDIGENOUS MINORITY HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE EQUATORIAL FOREST; IN THE CENTRAL AFRICA (DRC,CAMEROON AND GABON).

Indigenous are condemned to social,political,cultural and political contamporary slavery. It is not easy for human to understand the straggle of pygmies.
http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/africa_pygmies0_struggle/html/2.stm
The indigenous minority in the central Africa are pygmies.
Most of this groups of indigenous pygmies live in the rain forests of the central Africa.(DRC,CAMEROON AND GABON).
Though Pygmies are believed to be the first inhabitants of the central Africa, they have never taken part in any census they are not allowed to own land.
The pygmies groups in the central Africa are: -Baka Pygmies,
-Bakola Pygmies,
-Bagyeli Pygmies,
-Bedzan Pygmies,
-Tikar Pygmies,
-Aka pygmies,
-Babongo pygmies,
-BaMbuti pygmies,
-BaTwa pygmies,
-Bayanda pygmies,
-Batiri pygmies…

The rights of indigenous are never respected.
Even though some of these groups of pygmies are undergoing a process of sedentarriness under the influence of multiple factors such as the massive deforestation together with various ethnic groups of Bantu peasants, with whom they exchange goods and have a symbolic relationship from time to time imperial; pygmies are steel traditionally nomadic.
Indigenous of the central Africa are treated like slaves.
Individuals and companies use pygmies in cutting woods in the forests, and in the factories of the palm oil.

In the democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), the Boteka,s palm oil factory owned by British company UNILIVER is the main employer.
Most of the 1000 employees are pygmies, who work under the supervision of fellow Congolese country men.
Some of these pygmies are paid 30 Congolese francs (7 US cents) and for the same amount of work, other people get 11 cents.
Most of the employers who own field claim to use pygmies because their labour is cheap and they accept to do hard works for this pay.

Indigenous Human Rights Abuse.

Indigenous Rights are of common concerns.
Indigenous people can in most instances be characterized as being effectively marginalized and isolated.
Indigenous peoples confront a diverse range of issues and concerns associated with their status and interaction with other cultural groups and changes in their inhabited environment. These issues include cultural and linguistic preservation ,land rights, ownership and exploitation of natural resources, political determination and autonomy, environmental degradation and incursion,porverty,health,information (education) and discrimination.

Many indigenous populations have undergone a dramatic decline and even extinction, and remain threatened in many parts of the world (Pygmies in Congo, Gabon , Cameroon ,¡­).
Indigenous societies range from those who have been significantly exposed to the colonizing or expansionary activities of the other societies ( example: Maya peoples of Mexico and central America, Turkana and Masai of Kenya,); while others remain in comparative isolation from any external influence( example :the Pygmies of the equatorial forest in DRC, the Sentinelese and the Jarawa of the Adama Islands).
Precise estimates for the total population of the world’s indigenous peoples are very difficult to compile, given the difficulties in identification and variances and inadequacies of available census data.


These issues include cultural and linguistic preservation ,land rights, ownership and exploitation of natural resources, political determination and autonomy, environmental degradation and incursion,poverty,health,information(education) and discrimination.

Common Characteristics of Indigenous

Common characteristics across many indigenous groups include present or historical reliance upon subsistence-based production ( based on hunting, gathering techniques and pastoral, horticultural).
Indigenous societies are predominantly non-urbanized and they are found in every inhabited climate zones.

Relation Between Peasants and Indigenous.

Peasants are human being whose permanent residence is located in a rural area where peasantry-related activities (agriculture, livestock breeding, fishing, reforestation, handcraft, etc.) are undertaken; and they are or live near by indigenous populations.

Indigenous are peoples who are self-identified as indigenous, and those recognised as such by other groups
Indigenous are nomadic based on hunting, gathering techniques and pastoral, horticultural.
They exchange good with peasants and peasants are in the best position to approach them At times peasants and indigenous use the same language for communication.
Both Peasants and Indigenous need improvement of they human Rights.

Indigenous and Peasants must be linked for common development and social acceptance.
The indigenous and peasants must be entitled to a real social integration in the society. Such an integration must be well planned and not compulsory, to allow the indigenous and peasants to progressively adapt themselves to the new living conditions in a state of Human Rights.

Who is a Peasants?

b.Peasants: In the context of this Declaration, the word ‘peasant’ refers to every human being whose permanent residence is located in a rural area where peasantry-related activities (agriculture, livestock breeding, fishing, reforestation, handcraft, etc.) are undertaken.



Statistics of Peasants:
Peasants constitute the majority of the world population and like indigenous their living conditions need to be improved; and the majority of the world population live in rural areas,
It is estimated that 55% of the world population are Peasants and they live in rural areas and 47% of the world Peasants population live in Africa.

40% of the Peasants in Africa live below 1 US $ a day.