Indigenous peoples: A guide for media professionals

This booklet is intended to serve as a tool for assisting media professionals covering indigenous peoples’ issues. It is the result of a number of workshops organized on this subject — at the ILO’s initiative — in Yaoundé in 2014 and 2015 bringing together media professionals and indigenous peoples’ representatives. In this context, the participating media professionals have committed themselves to promoting the rights of indigenous peoples.

Cameroon is among the countries concerned by the issue of indigenous peoples. Out of a population estimated to exceed 20 million inhabitants, some ten per cent have been identified as indigenous peoples, on the basis of work carried out by experts at both the international and regional level in accordance with pre-established criteria. These peoples are divided up into two major groups — the forest peoples commonly known as « Pygmies » and the Mbororo.