Victory for the million pygmies after the vote on a bill enshrining positive discrimination in favor of marginalized indigenous peoples .
This is the culmination of a long struggle by the Congolese civil society organization Dynamique des groupes des peuples autochtones (DGPA).
The law grants costly benefits to pygmies: free health care, free secondary schooling, etc. A national fund for the development of pygmies is to be set up to implement this law, which was passed by the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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