|
The latest news
articles are available on our News page. To receive the latest news
and press releases about the Ogiek's struggle to retain their rights
by e-mail, contact us using our Web form or send an e-mail to
africanode(at)ecoterra.net. New
date for cancelled Ogiek fete
(December
20, 2000) The Ogiek Welfare Council has organized another cultural
fete on December 31 running to the new year after police cancelled
a two-day fete set for December 9 and 10 that coincided with the
International Human Rights Day.
Police
cancel Ogiek fete
(December 9, 2000) Police cancelled a cultural fete organized
by the indigenous Ogiek tribe of Kenya and ordered everyone to
go back home.
Ogiek
to host cultural festival
(December 5, 2000) The embattled Ogiek indigenous community of
Kenya has organized a major cultural fete to inform the world
of their culture and their determination to retain it.
A
plea to the international community
(December 1, 2000) A Kenyan human rights organization produced
a new report on an embattled indigenous group fighting to keep
their homeland.
Kenya's Mau Forest Dismembered for Political
Payoffs
(November 20, 2000) NAIROBI,
Kenya - One of Kenya's few remaining moist forests is set to lose another 60,000
hectares (148,000 acres) of land, intensifying a conservation crisis brought about by the Kenya
government's systematic destruction of the country's forest cover.
Government
to annex Ogiek land
(November 13, 2000) The Kenya government has discussed a plan
to degazette some 60,000 hectares from the East Mau Forest, thus
depriving the Ogiek indigenous group of the last remnants of their
ancestral land, the Ogiek Welfare Council reported.
Ogiek case
- East Mau Forest-KENYA
(October 9, 2000) CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS -
The Ogiek people are on of the last remaining forest dwellers and the most marginalised of all indigenous
peoples and minorities in Kenya.
THE
FIGHT MUST GO ON - Edward Goldsmith
(August 2000) Reprinted
from The Ecologist, August 2000, and Fourth World Review No. 103.-
“Science and technology can
only serve to mask the symptoms of our much wider problems.”
Kenyan
Forest Dwellers Face Eviction
(May 23, 2000) OGIEK Action Alert -
ECOTERRA North America - The
Ogiek people are a minority forest dwelling community residing in
the Tinet since time immemorial. Since 1939, there
have been attempts by successive political regimes in Kenya to
remove the Ogiek from their ancestral homelands, often forcibly.
Where are all the young
Women?
(May 5, 2000) Younger women interested in politics are now saying they fear the youth agenda might never see the light of day in the current political debates because of the stranglehold the current crop of national leaders have on Kenyan politics.
OGIEK
EVICTION STOPPED
(May 5, 2000) Kenya
Court of Appeal grants stay of execution of a High Court Degree.-
In the "Ogiek of Tinet Forest" case against their
eviction from their ancestral lands by the Government of Kenya,
allowed for by a landmark ruling (High Court Judges Richard Kuloba
and Samuel Oguk) of the Kenya High Court on 23rd of March 2000,
appellate judges Lady Justice Effie Owuor and Judges A.B. Shah and
P.K.Tunoi were now appointed for the Court of Appeal to hear the
grievances of these indigenous peoples, known as the honey-hunters
of Kenya.
THE STRUGGLE OF THE OGIEK WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE
CSD8 !
(May 2, 2000) CSD8 SIDE EVENT
--- 3-5PM Tues. 2 MAY 2000 ; Conference Room A
....
KHRC
- URGENT
ACTION
(April 8, 2000) Imminent
violent displacement and eviction of the Ogiek Forest People in
Tinet Forest area of Molo in Nakuru District, Rift Valley Province,
Kenya.
TRIBAL
ELDERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS ARRESTED
(April 6, 2000) KENYA:
Several elders of the Ogiek tribal community were arrested,
together with three people from the Kenyan Human Rights Commission
and eight from the 'Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change'
theatre group, on Thursday 30 March in Tinet, Nakuru District.
They are being held in the nearby police station at Molo.
Green
smokescreen for eviction of forest people
(Spring 2000) The forest-dwelling Ogiek of Kenya swear to resist
eviction from their land in spite of a High Court judgment which
denies their right to it. [Survival International]
Human
rights defenders arrested for acting in front of primary school
children
(March 31, 2000) Kenyan authorities now seem to believe that acting
is a crime. [Amnesty International]
Judges
Rule In Favour Of Environment
(March 27, 2000) Nairobi, Kenya
(PANA) - Undeterred by unruly status quo and modernity, the Ogiek
people of Kenya have fought a losing legal battle over their
habitat and heritage as a court ruled in favour of the environment.
Kenya's
indigenous honey hunters lose their forest home
(March 24, 2000) The Ogiek people of Kenya's central Rift
Valley have lost a legal battle over their habitat and heritage.
[Environment News Service]
United
Nations rejects report
(March 7, 2000) The
United Nations has rejected the government's report on economic,
social and cultural rights.The report was declared sub-standard
and inadequate, the convenor of Housing and Land Rights Committee,
Habitat International Coalition, Mr Miloon Kothari, said yesterday
Kenyan
Government evicts traditional landholders while promoting logging
(January 15, 2000) afrol.com: -
In Kenya's East Mau Forest, the conflict is growing between the
Government and logging companies on one side, and the Ogiek people
and organisations supporting them on the other side. The
Government is accused of defying a High Court order by continuing
to allocate the Ogiek people's land claims.
News /
Archives: 2008 |
2007 |
2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
2003 |
2002 | 2001
| 2000
| 1999
|
