A new report by Survival International has accused UNESCO of complicity in the illegal eviction and abuse of Indigenous people. It points to the many UNESCO World Heritage Sites that are the scene of serious and continuing conservation-related rights abuses.
On-the-ground investigations by Survival researchers, in Indigenous communities across Africa and Asia, have uncovered repeated cases of torture, rape, and killings of Indigenous people in and around World Heritage Sites.
Channel Africa reporter Lebogang Mabange spoke to Linda Poppe, director of the Berlin office of Survival International...