Avaaz petition to World Bank President: Use your leverage over the Kenyan government to urgently halt the violent evictions of the Sengwer people
To sign this petition please click here.
For background information please see:
- Kenya defies its own courts: torching homes and forcefully evicting the Sengwer from their ancestral lands, threatening their cultural survival
- Kenyan Government torches hundreds of Sengwer homes in the forest glades in Embobut
- Urgent appeal against the forced eviction of Sengwer communities in Kenya
Funds are urgently needed to continue the legal effort to stop these appalling evictions now, and to ensure that Sengwer families can safely return to the forest. To donate please visit this JustGiving page.
Overview
- Resource Type:
- News
- Publication date:
- 24 January 2014
- Region:
- Kenya
- Programmes:
- Conservation and human rights