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At the Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions in Geneva, members of the Transformative Pathways project held a side event to highlight the work Indigenous Peoples are doing to monitor their cultural and biological diversity.

This open letter calls upon the Kenyan Government to halt the ongoing evictions of the Ogiek community in the Mau Forest by the Kenyan Forest Service (KFS) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

  7th June 2023 ICCS Group, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

The Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, protect and care for their community lands over the long term. 

Launched in the second half of 2022, Transformative Pathways is a joint initiative led by indigenous organisations in five countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and supported by a network

Lancée au second semestre 2022, Solutions transformatrices est une initiative conjointe menée par des organisations autochtones dans cinq pays d’Asie, d’Afrique et d’Amérique latine, soutenue par un réseau de partenaires internationaux, dont Forest Peoples P

Peter Kitelo and Others v County Government of Bungoma and Another ELC Bungoma Civil Case No. 10 of 2020 (formerly ELC 109 of 2008) 

"We won. I am overwhelmed."  - Peter Kitelo, who led on the case for the Ogiek.

The first Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) took place in Kigali, Rwanda from 18-23rd July, 2022.

Le premier Congrès africain sur les aires protégées (APAC) a eu lieu à Kigali, au Rwanda, du 18 au 23 juillet 2022.

In June 2022, ten indigenous peoples’ communities from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania came together for the ‘East Africa Assembly on Land, Justice and Indigenous Peoples’ Co-operation’, the first round of a series of women-led community-to-community assemblies to explore how to overcome the legacy of colonial conservati

Kigali, Rwanda On the opening day of the Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) in Kigali, Indigenous Peoples from East Africa call on the IUCN to put their rights front and center in any conservation efforts being proposed, including an immediate end to illegal evictions from areas where people have lived in harmony with nature for thousands of years. 

This paper is number 2 of the briefing series Transforming Conservation: from conflict to justice. From Eastern Congo to the coast of Kenya, “security” crises are used to evict forest peoples, creating greater insecurity in the process. We compare this practice in relation to the Batwa in present day Kahuzi-Biega (DR Congo), the Ogiek in 1980s Mt Elgon (Kenya), the Benet Mosopisyek bopth at Mt Elgon in 2008 (Uganda), and the Aweer in Lamu County from 1963 to 1967 (Kenya).

Depuis l’Est du Congo jusqu’à la côte du Kenya, les crises de « sécurité » sont utilisées pour évincer les peuples des forêts, engendrant ainsi une plus grande insécurité. Nous comparons cette pratique en rapport avec les Batwa dans l’actuel parc de Kahuzi-Biega (RD Congo), avec les Ogiek dans les années 1980 et les Benet Mosopisyek en 2008 dans le parc du Mont Elgon (Ouganda) et avec les Aweer de 1963 à 1967 dans le comté de Lamu (Kenya).

Lidya Liyio is a member of the Mau Ogiek, and shared a powerful speech on the last day of the Indigenous Women's Exchange at Chepkitale, Mouth Elgon, Kenya.

Between February 28 – March 3, 2022, the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples’ Development Project (CIPDP) and FPP organized a 3-day Indigenous Women’s Exchange at Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya.

Between February 28 – March 3, 2022, the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples’ Development Project (CIPDP) and FPP organized a 3-day Indigenous Women’s Exchange at Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya.

This report offers alternative information in response to the combined 12th and 13th Kenyan Government’s report submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (‘ACHPR’) pursuant to Article 62 of the African Charter (the ‘Kenyan periodic report’).

From Eastern Congo to the coast of Kenya, “security” crises are used to evict forest people, creating greater insecurity in the process. We compare this practice in relation to the Batwa in present day Kahuzi-Biega (DR Congo), the Ogiek in 1980s Mt Elgon (Kenya), the Benet at Mt Elgon in 2008 (Uganda), and the Aweer in Lamu County from 1963 to 1967 (Kenya).

In the lead-up to historic agreements on climate and nature being made in Glasgow at COP26, more than 180 civil society and indigenous organisations, and academics, from more than 50 countries, have signed an open letter that that calls on world leaders to put human rights at the centre of climate and environmental policy.

Over 150 civil society organisations and academics sign open letter calling on world leaders to integrate human rights into global and national environmental policy and practice