4 In terms of rights to the civil registration and equality, Civil registration concerns only 14.3% of the surveyed teenagers, and most likely less for children and adults, because of:     The remoteness of registration centres; Discrimination still very acute; Hostility of civil registrars which may discourage many volunteers; Ignorance of parents and lack of interest (in relation to their daily life) for the certificate. The universal principle of equality of all men is systematically and deliberately flouted by Bantus who treat indigenous people as 'subhuman' or “slaves, '' good enough to work for them, obediently. Large Bantu families in the Sangha and Likouala regions are proud to talk about the number of their subjects and their inclination to '' protect '' and '' care '' for them as their own children. They clearly display their '' owners ''prerogatives. In this context, indigenous women are victimised twice by their fellow indigenous people as well as the Bantu '' owners ''. They are victims of violence and they experience the worst sexual violence. Husbands may beat their wives if they refuse sexual intercourse and Bantus cheerfully practice 'the lease' of an indigenous girl whereby he takes a young indigenous girl with him at home, she will have one or two children for him and he will repudiate her thereafter. The widespread early marriage is also another form of suppression and violence performed on girls aged 13 -14 years. Rapes are very much practiced in indigenous communities (according to the survey CAP 2007), and the victims are teenagers and old women:   10.4% of teenage girls surveyed admitted to having been raped; 7.7% of teenagers admit to having forced sex. 5- Other denial of rights (ownership of land and forests, labour and servitude, access to justice and participation in public life). Deprivation of rights extend to land or forest, workplace, public sources and public life through the practices of exclusion, marginalisation and segregation: 1. In terms of forestry (sole indigenous living area), sale by the state of areas to be exploited without the knowledge of the indigenous people, settling in the forest in violation of local customs, establishment of protected forest areas causing conflicts between eco-guards and indigenous people, right of access to forests ignored, limitations on access to game areas, destruction of forest habitat, excluding discussion about forest management; 2. In labour law, recruitment indeed by the authorities, but they are underpaid under the pretexts that they are lazy people or deserters from their desktops, taking over of part or almost all of the salary by Bantu families ' owners'; also continued forced labour for the benefit of Bantus, hunting and harvesting chores of the master’s land, sometimes more binding credits (prohibitive interest rates, permanent servitude); 127

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