Caring for community lands – the case of the Mt Elgon Ogiek in Kenya

In September 2022, the Ogiek of Mt Elgon won a 14-year court case against this eviction. The Elgon Ogiek provide a powerful example of how ...

'We are our land'—Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya: securing ...

We examine how collective community control can enable decisions to be made in line with taking care of community lands over the long term, but ...

Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project (CIPDP) | FPP

Objectives · Mt. Elgon Provincial Resolution on the transfer of community ownership to the community, · the drafting of community legislation on Ogiek and the ...

'We are our land'—Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya

taking care of community lands over the long term, but also ... OCHIEN'G, D.A. (2017) The rights to land of Indigenous Peoples in. Kenya: a case study of the ...

'We are our land'—Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya - ResearchGate

Evidence from Mount Elgon and more broadly shows that Indigenous Peoples are better guardians of their forests than international or state ...

Ogiek of Mt Elgon win landmark judgement in 20-year struggle for ...

The Mt. Elgon Ogiek community filed this case in the Environment and Land Court in 2008 to challenge the then Mt. Elgon County Council's ...

The Ogiek of Mt Elgon (Kenya) – recipients of one of our small ...

At the end of September 2022, we hear from our grantee Forest Peoples Programme that the Ogiek of Mount Elgon (Kenya) have just won their land ...

News | Whakatane Mechanism

The Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, have worked extremely hard to regain their community land rights, and to reassert their collective care for their ...

The Ogiek of Kenya reclaim their Mount Elgon territory and restore ...

so that the community can take care of their lands over the long term on a secure basis, and the importance of their being clear to all authorities that that is ...

In Kenya, the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon are a community on the frontlines of ...

It is our hope that by publicizing the conservation success story of the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon, we can draw attention to the ways in which secure tenure rights for ...

Watch the guardians of the forest - Tenure Facility

Nestled in the Kenyan highlands near the Ugandan boarder, the Ogiek of Chepkitale have lived in the moorlands and forests around Mount Elgon for ...

An Assessment of the Land Claims and Rights of the Ogiek (Muthoni ...

Focusing on human rights and land claims of the local community that resides in the Mau Forest, this paper aims to analyze their struggles to gain customary ...

An indigenous community uses traditional bylaws to protect ...

The Ogiek of Chepkitale have severally been victims of evictions and have been fighting for their traditional land rights, given the country's ...

Ogiek case: protection of an indigenous community in Kenya

¹ The Court said that Kenyan authorities should not have expelled the Ogieks from their ancestral lands against their will and should not have ...

Report - SwedBio

by the Ogiek Indigenous community of Mt Elgon, Kenya. The four-day dialogue ... One of the Katiba Institute's cases is that of the Ogiek community in Mount Elgon.

Daughters for Earth Gathering: Indigenous Solidarity in the Face of ...

Members of the Ogiek community of Mount Elgon have been mapping their lands for over ten years. In 2020 we began work with them, alongside ...

Kenya's Ogiek win land case against government - Al Jazeera

It recognises the Ogiek's “strong attachment to the forest”, their legal right to live on the forest land, their freedom to practise their ...

On Land (conservation, evictions, and collective ownership) - YouTube

Cosmas Murunga, of the Indigenous Ogiek of Chepkitale in Mount Elgon, and the chairman Council of Elders, speaks in depth of the historical ...

ISSN 2284-3531 Ordine internazionale e diritti umani, (2023 ... - IRIS

... Ogiek Community of Chepkitale, Mt. Elgon) v Attorney. General & 4 others; Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (Amicus Curiae) (Environment & Land.

The Ogiek still hoping for implementation of African Court ruling ...

Given that it's in the Ogiek and Sengwer communities' interests to protect their ancestral lands, their eviction from these areas only exposes ...