Pygmies

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.The term is primarily associated with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa).The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanian pygmies" have been used to describe the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and Australo-Melanesian peoples of short stature. The …

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HDRO: United Nations Human Development Report Office · 11 March 2024 English

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Human Development Report Office …

REPORT 2023/2024 Games Predicts Polygyny in Bayaka Pygmies.” Royal World: What Infants, Children, and Other


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 March 2024 English

to the amount of cops on the street, were drawn from the city’s rapidly City dwellers’ relationship to the to the cost of rent, policy makes and growing unhoused population. …

levels of state and the Earth to protect the little pygmies—is helpless when interests of private capital?


MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

Governments shall take measures, in cooperation with the peoples Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the concerned, to protect and preserve the environment of the territories Human …

Western Europe Minorities in the Balkans The Batwa Pygmies of the Great Lakes Region Minorities in Central


World Bank Group · 23 January 2024 English

An estimated 7.5 million Cameroonians—about one in three people in the country—do not have an official proof of identity such as a birth certificate or national ID card. More than …

dedicated support to minorities (for example, Pygmies and Bororos) informed by qualitative studies on


World Bank Group · 23 January 2024 English

An estimated 7.5 million Cameroonians, about one in three people in the country, do not have an official proof of identity such as a birth certificate or national ID card. …

dedicated support to minorities (for example, Pygmies and Bororos) informed by qualitative studies on


UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 11 December 2023 English

Also, the designations employed and the presentation of the materials do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning …

national groups had specific needs (youth, minority pygmies) that consultant (Francoise Mukuku) to mitigate administrative services and improved capacity pygmies knowing their land rights and can demand skills especially in the involvement of minority groups (pygmies) could also North Kivu province, the general elections in realities on the ground. It contributes 500 pygmies’ communities being able to have access to two conflicting needs (youth, Appropriateness design, minority pygmies) that where not addressed to a large performance


World Bank Group · 16 November 2023 Portuguese

vezes referidos pelo termo pejorativo " Pigmeus [Pygmies]) na vizinha República Democrática do Congo.9


WFP: World Food Programme · 10 November 2023 English

A WFP study looking at gendered barriers affecting populations seeking humanitarian assistance in five countries. It identifies barriers emerging before, during and after assistance provision by WFP and provides recommendations.

prove identity and family composition, on 19 Pygmies are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa


World Bank Group · 3 November 2023 English

mostly of Bantu and a few minorities, including Pygmies. It consists of vulnerable groups including internally


Cato Institute · 24 October 2023 English

In 1991, India went bust and rushed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help. At the time, India was famous (or perhaps infamous) for being the biggest beggar for …

corporations. Indian private‐ sector companies remained pygmies by global standards, and foreign investment was


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