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Press Release: Ogiek of Mt Elgon win landmark judgement in 20 ...

I am overwhelmed." - Peter Kitelo, who led on the case for the Ogiek. The Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, have just won their case in ...

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

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 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 ...

African Court Delivers Landmark Judgment on Ogiek Land Rights ...

The Court set a major precedent for Indigenous Peoples' land rights by ruling in favor of the Ogiek community of Kenya.

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

The forests from which the Ogiek community were evicted (e.g. Kiptugot Forest) were then given out as forest concessions for the logging of ...

Media mentions - Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project

Check back often for new stories. Press Release: Ogiek of Mt Elgon win landmark judgement in 20-year struggle for land rights · People-to-People Declaration ...

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

The Ogiek of Kenya has won the landmark land rights case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights. This ruling not only justifies that eviction of the ...

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

The verdict recognises the Ogiek's indigenous status and their right to reparations from the Kenyan government for the suffering they have ...

Ogiek win another landmark victory in African Court

After a 13-year legal struggle, the judgment is a beacon of hope for the community, indigenous peoples across Africa and all those who are serious about ...

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

... 17((7–17(70. CIPDP (CHEPKITALE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT. PROJECT) (2022) Ogiek of Mt Elgon win landmark judgment in. -year struggle for land rights.

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Press Release: Ogiek of Mt Elgon win landmark judgement in 20-year struggle for land rights ... "We won. I am overwhelmed." - Peter Kitelo, who led on the case ...

Press Releases - Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project

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

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

This week, the Ogiek of Mau forest in Kenya marked the third year since the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights delivered a landmark ...

'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 ...

In Kenya, violations of African Court's ruling lead to illegal evictions ...

In May 2017, Kenya's Ogiek people, a hunting and gathering community, won a landmark victory before the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights after the ...

Reparations at last: Land justice for Kenya's Ogiek

Mt Elgon Ogiek and Sengwer in Kenya, and the Maasai in Tanzania. In this ... 7. Ogiek Reparations Judgment, paras 19–20. 8. See MRG, 'Kenya flouts ...

Watch the guardians of the forest - Tenure Facility

In addition to this, Kitelo and others fought a decades-long court battle on behalf of the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon that culminated with a legal ...

Ogiek Peoples win landmark reparations ruling - IWGIA

On 23 June 2022, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights delivered a pioneering reparation judgment concerning the rights of the ...

Chepkitale Ogiek Thanksgiving Day and launch of Transformative ...

This included celebrating the community's 26th September legal victory when Bungoma court ruled that the gazettement of Chepkitale Trust Land as ...

Join us in commemorating 3rd anniversary of the Ogiek Land mark win

... Mt Elgon are yet to receive their justice despite the winning Land Mark ruling in African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACtHPR) on 26th May 2017 ...