“Mau forest is our home, we are not encroachers we are forest dwellers, we don’t cut trees we nurture them for our livelihood, we hung our beehives, it’s our sure ‘hospital’ we get herbs, it’s a sacred mother earth to our traditions”
OGIEK Peoples' Development Program (OPDP) is dedicatet to the preservation of the Ogiek culture, the protection of nature and the improvement of socio-economic opportunities by way of building the synergies of the Ogiek youth and women through education.
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Huge victory for Kenya’s Ogiek as African Court sets major precedent for indigenous peoples’ land rights
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04.01.2010 Kenyan tribe slowly driven off its ancestral lands
22.02.2014 FRESH ATTACKS !!!
04.03.2014
KENYA'S
OGIEK CASE
13.05.2014 OPDP'S PARTICIPATION AT UNPFII
23.05.2014 Life and Land: The Ogiek in Kenya Fight for their Rights
30.05.2014 Traditional Knowledge is also Science, Indigenous Peoples Assert
22.09.2014 Kenya’s Ogiek Women Conquer Cultural Barriers to Support their Families
22.09.2014 Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
26.11.2014 African Court to hear Ogiek community land rights case against the Kenyan government
14.12.2016 Ogiek present historical land injustices to KNCHR
22.04.2017 TRANSLATING CULTURAL DIVERSITIES INTO PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE
26.05.2017 Huge victory for Kenya’s Ogiek as African Court sets major precedent for indigenous peoples’ land rights
27.05.2017 What next for Ogiek after the African Court’s favourable judgment?
Universal Declaration on Human Rights
Translation by Cheruiyot Kiplangat and Leonard Mindore - Dedicated to Ogiek as Indigenous and Tribal People
FOREST PROTECTION: THE MEDIA ROLE
Forest plundering is not a new issue in the Kenya scene. From the colonial period to present day, forests have been excised without notification or due regard to the affected population. Nevertheless, the 90s saw a trend emerge of exposing forest related issues through the media.
Kenya's Castaways: The Ogiek and National Development Processes
The Ogiek, who number around 20,000, are arguably the largest hunter-gatherer community in Kenya. They have identified themselves as an indigenous people, as defined in Article 1(b) of International Labour Organization Convention No. 169,1 and the United Nations (UN) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights have recognized them as such.
