In a key moment of a long-running landmark case, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled in favour of the Ogiek people, including by recognising their rights to collective title, to their language, religious and cultural practices, and to consultation for any development or conservation projects on their ancestral lands. Read more ▸
New animations explore the revival of land, water, seed and Earth-centered cultures by Indigenous and traditional communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya. Read more ▸
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The ICCA Consortium joins more than 150 other organizations condemning the Kenyan government’s forced eviction of Ogiek and Sengwer families from their homes and ancestral lands in the name of conservation. Read more ▸
Policy and Advocacy Co-Coordinator for Africa
In October, Natural Justice organized an Environmental Justice Forum in Kenya, tackling the issue of securing land ownership for indigenous and local communities, as a way to protect their livelihoods and ensure better conservation practices of lands and forests. Maryama Farah, Senior Officer at Natural Justice, offers a summary along with her reflections on the event. Read more ▸
From organising demonstrations to delivering statements in UN plenary sessions, representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities around the world are creating an “ecosystem” of collective actions for rights-based approaches and intergenerational equity — and tackling the drivers of biodiversity loss as key elements of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Read more ▸
Kenya’s National Environmental Tribunal handed down judgment on the challenge to the Lamu coal plant license on Wednesday, 26 June 2019. A challenge brought by the communities of Lamu and Kenyan civil society organisations, including Natural Justice, an ICCA Consortium Member. Read more ▸
As part of the ICCA Global Support Initiative, together with the ICCA Consortium and Natural Justice, the UNDP GEF SGP conducted analyses to evaluate the impacts and opportunities of laws, policies and institutional frameworks on ICCAs at the national level in several countries. Read more ▸
This paper focuses upon loopholes in new laws that could exclude forested lands from collective entitlement, impairing constitutional advances in the process. Ambiguity within the Kenyan Constitution itself plays a role. Therefore, while lesser impediments to land justice may be remedied through clarifying regulations and parliamentary removal of offending clauses, judicial interpretation of constitutional intentions is required. Read more ▸
A peer-to-peer dialogue took place on the outskirts of Nairobi. Practitioners of environmental and human rights law from the judiciary, academia, civil society and various levels of government discussed and made recommendations for goals to be set for the post 2020 global biodiversity framework and contribute to the implementation of human rights to a healthy and sustainable environment Read more ▸
Over four intense days, representatives from communities, conservation, human rights and government engaged in a Global Dialogue on Human Rights and Biodiversity Conservation. Held… Read more “Recognising the Real Conflict? The Eldoret Dialogue on Human Rights and Conservation. A Personal Perspective” ▸
Nairobi, Kenya, 28th March 2017 – On the invitation of UNDP GEF SGP, the ICCA Consortium, the Forest People Programme, Natural Justice and the… Read more “Towards a critical mass for social justice in community territorial governance in Kenya” ▸
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March 31st, Lusaka, Zambia – Some 30 participants comprising local community, civil society, government and ICCA Consortium representatives gathered for an ICCA National Workshop… Read more “Supporting ICCAs in Zambia: setting the cornerstones.” ▸
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