>
> OGIEK JUU
> ("Ogiek up!" in KiSwahili)
>
> Landmark Victory for the Ogiek and Justice delivered by the African Court
>
> By Venatrix Fulmen
>
> The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, at its 45th session on 26
May 2017 in Arusha/Tanzania, delivered a long-awaited and unanimous
judgement against the Kenya government in a case brought before it by the
Ogiek indigenous people.
>
> The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights had filed the case as
the applicant and did proof the consistent violations and the denial of the
human and land rights of the Ogiek by the respondent - the Republic of
Kenya as state and governance.
>
> Already in November 2009, when the Kenyan Forest Service (KFS) had
delivered a potentially fatal blow against the Ogiek with the gazettment of
an eviction order in October 2009 against the Ogiek and anyone else to
vacate the ancestral homeland of the Ogiek - the Mau Forest Complex -
within 30 days, the African Court had issued an order to suspend the
implementation of the eviction notice.
>
> In March 2013, the African Court issued an additional provisional
measures order requiring the Kenyan Government to stop any land
transactions in the Mau Forest and refrain from taking any action which
would harm the case, until it had reached a decision. This order, however,
has never been respected by the Kenyan state organs.
>
> After dismissing the numerous objections of the government of Kenya, the
African Court delivered today in Arusha a comprehensive judgement and the
very clear ruling, read out over almost 2 hours by Hon. Justice Agustino
Ramadani - the former President of the African Court.
>
> The court found that the government of the Republic of Kenya illegally
evicted members of the Ogiek community from the Mau Forest and has
continuously violated the rights of the Ogiek - as it has been documented
over many years - under Articles 1, 2, 8, 14, 17 (2/3), 21 and 22 of the
African Charter on Peoples and Human Rights.
>
> The Republic of Kenya has been given 6 months to implement the required
remedies.
>
> The court also ruled that concerning the now applicable demand for
reparations as well as compensations and costs the Ogiek have 90 days to
file an application and the Kenya state has adequately 90 days to respond
to the demands. After this period the African Court will rule on the
reparations to be awarded to the Ogiek community and its victims of abusive
state power.
>
> The Ogiek, a people of hunter-gatherer culture, who as forest dwellers
lived in their aboriginal homeland - the Mau Forest Complex - since times
immemorial, as well as ECOTERRA Intl., who stood by the Ogiek since 1986 in
their struggle even during the post-election violence 2008/9 when several
Ogiek were killed, as well as other important supporters like Friends of
Peoples close to Nature (fPcN-interCultural), MRG and CEMIRIDE, welcomed
the ruling as a fair and just land-mark ruling with significant
implications also for other First Nations in Africa.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> - Please send your feedback and comments to africanode[AT]ecoterra.net or
collective[AT]fpcn-global.org
>
> All ECOTERRA Media and Disseminations are re-distributable under Creative
Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike Licence, but kindly do not take the
ECOTERRA free mailing list services for granted! Become a Friend of
ECOTERRA and make a donation NOW to help keep ECOTERRA FREE and INDEPENDENT
>
> ==============
> Pro-active work to protect nature and human rights requires YOU to work
with us
>
> Even if you have no possibility to be at the front-lines with us, please
know we need independent funding.
>
> PLEASE consider to support ECOTERRA's work through our trust fund.
> Send your pledges to ecotrust[AT]ecoterra.net EVERY BIT COUNTS.
>
> -------------------
>
> ECOTERRA Intl.
>
> SURVIVAL & FREEDOM for PEOPLE & NATURE
>
> -----------------
>
> Our full footer, being an essential, legal part of this dissemination,
can be found at
> http://www.ecoterra.net/footer.htm
> - please read it at least once a month to get important subscription and
security updates.
>
> - please also ensure that our sender domains @ecoterra.net and @
ecoterra-international.org
> are WHITELISTED with your e-mail account, programme and ISP to receive
your information safely.
>
> To subscribe, un-subscribe or re-subscribe to most ECOTERRA group-lists
just go to
> http://ccmail.ecoterra-international.org/ or send an e-mail to
[email protected].
>
> ----------------------
>
> ECOTERRA Intl. nodes:
> Canaries - Cairns - Cairo - Calgary - Cape Town - Cassel - Cebu - Cork -
> Curitiba - La Paz - London - Los Angeles - Nairobi - Roma - Paris -
> Reykjavik - Stuttgart - Wien - Vanuatu
> ECOTERRA - FIRST PEOPLES & NATURE FIRST!
> http://www.ecoterra-international.org
> 24 h EMERGENCY RESPONSE PHONE LINE: +49-177-235-908-1
> Become a pro-ative-member of fPcN-interCultural (write to friends of
Peoples close to Nature via [email protected])
> or of our Marine Group: http://www.ecop.info
--
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob
View this message at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"South Sudan Info - The Kob" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oof%3DoWHCneXexdEXgiDOMisp8ji1iFY3h2dicg3Vt%2BeDA%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
