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Interview with Milka Chepkorir: Sengwer women in Kenya and their struggle for...

9 December, 2016Milka Chepkorir Kuto is a human rights activist and member of the Sengwer indigenous people, who live in the the Embobut and Kabolet Forest, Kenya. For the last three years, Milka has...

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How can the EU WaTER Project help secure, not undermine, human rights in Kenya?

14 February, 2017There is increasing concern from local, national and international civil society about the human rights implications of the EU’s €31 million Water Tower Protection and Climate Change...

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Violence escalates against the Sengwer of Embobut Forest, Kenya

4 April, 2017Shortly after a visit from an EU delegation last week, Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards based at Tangul, Kipsitono and Maron KFS camps carried out intensive evictions according to Sengwer...

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Forest Peoples Programme Dialogue on Community-based Monitoring, Reporting...

14 December, 2015From 16-19 Nov. 2015, FPP in collaboration with its local partners working across the Africa region organized in Yaoundé in Cameroon a meeting on Monitoring Reporting and Verification...

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Conserving injustice: The unnecessary ongoing eviction and displacement of...

14 December, 2015The Sengwer community at Embobut has been dispersed, with most still living in their forests and glades high in the Cherangany Hills despite the evictions by the Government’s Kenya...

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Ogiek of Kenya win landmark land rights case

26 May, 2017The Ogiek of Kenya have wona landmark land rights case at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.The ruling makes clear that the protection of the Mau forests cannot justify the...

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