NEWS COMPILATION
2017
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?
2016
14.12.2016 Ogiek present historical land injustices to KNCHR
2015
2014
01.01.2014 Grants Awarded 2013 - THE CARETAKERS OF ALL - Ogiek Peoples Development Program (Kenya)
28.01.2014
17.02.2014 Economic Empowerment Projects
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
2013
20.03.2013 African Court issues historic ruling protecting rights of Kenya's Ogiek Community
24.04.2013 East African Communities Rising Against Land Acquisition
20.05.2013 Ogiek Peoples Development Programme - 12th Session of the UNPFII - May 20th - 31st 2013, UN Plaza, New York
07.11.2013 Community demands title deed for Mau Forest land
10.12.2013 400
Ogieks return to class for commercial bee-keeping
2012
23.10.2012 Urgent Appeal: The Ogiek of Eastern Mau
14.12.2012 Kenya: Songs, drama, artifact exhibition colour Ogiek community cultural day
2011
18.03.2011 Kenya: MRG Condemns Targeted Attacks On Ogiek Activists
2010
04.01.2010 Kenyan tribe slowly driven off its ancestral lands
12 04.2010 Ogiek Council of Elders officially launched to address the forest dwelling community’s concerns
2009
July 2009 Demonstrating Against Mau Forest Evictions
24.07.2009 OGIEK MEMORANDUM - Ogiek Peoples Development Program
24.07.2009 Ogiek Community Views to the Committee of experts on the Constitutional Review
28.07.2009 Ogiek elders offer conservation skills
31.07.2009 Ogiek People's Fate in Mau Forest Lies in Our Patrners and Friends intervention
04.08.2009 Families face eviction as Kenya tries to save forest
14.08.2009 Protectors of the Forest
25.08.2009 Ethnic question in Kenya census stokes suspicions
15.09.2009 “Taking the Ogiek out of the Mau is like taking a fish out of water”
23.09.2009 Plumes of smoke and fear of eviction in Kenya's Mau forest
29.09.2009 Ogiek Claims on Mau Forest Complex
03.10.2009 Ogiek Community In Nessuit, Kenya, Video Appeal On Mau Forest Complex
10.10.2009 Rape of forest goes on as more dig in
12.10.2009 Leaders demand immediate Mau evictions
19.10.2009 Our laws are not applied equally
21.10.2009 Mau settlers refuse to surrender title deeds
06.11.2009 MRG requests urgent UN intervention in illegal eviction of Kenya's Ogiek community
11.11.2009 Online interview with Mr. Joseph Sang from Nessuit location
11.11.2009 Mail changing - November 10 and 11, 2009 - VERY URGENT: OGIEK CASE !
11.11.2009 Tension in Mau as evictions begin
12.11.2009 Kenyan Tribe Voices Concern To Ban Ki-Moon
13.11.2009 Govt to Answer Ogiek Mau Suit
14.11.2009 The world reports over us!
15.11.2009 Kenya may evict people from ancestral land
15.11.2009 God Believers urge Kenya Govt. to rehabilitate dwellers after evicting from forests
15.11.2009 Kenya starts forest eviction
15.11.2009 MPs demand land for evicted Mau squatters
16.11.2009 Mau issue being handled badly
18.11.2009 Kenya evicts thousands of forest squatters in attempt to save Rift valley
19.11.2009 Ogiek team chosen to aid Mau restoration
20.11.2009 The Global Warming Swindle !
23.11.2009 Climate mitigation measures threaten tribes
29.11.2009 Mudavadi tells off leaders opposing Mau evictions
29.11.2009 Why MPs are keen to keep Mau flame alive
30.11.2009 Quit over your stand on Mau evictions, ministers told
30.11.2009 A sickening game, all in the name of Mau
01.12.2009 Action needed right now
01.12.2009 Rainforests are homes too
04.12.2009 Eviction imminent for Ogiek tribe in Kenya
05.12.2009 How Moi allies acquired land meant for Ogiek
07.12.2009 Kenya urged to address resettlement of forest dwellers
19.12.2009 The hunting dogs have arrived, it’s party time, but why aren’t the Ogiek dancing?
24.12.2009 More oppose Mau payout
2008
03.01.2008 Two Ogiek shot by Kenya Police
08.01.2008 Ogiek Women Raped by
GSU
19.01.2008
Paramilitary units hunt Ogiek, while Kikuyu arsonists burn houses of fleeing
Ogiek to the ground
22.01.2008 Ogiek defend forests
against corporate thief
30.01.2008
Ogiek People Under Attack In Kenya's Rift Valley
02.02.2008 Paper mill runs short of materials
04.02.2008 Ogiek killed like rabbits by rampant militia in Kenya
05.02.2008 Kenya Honey-Gathering Forest Tribe Caught in Violence
13.02.2008 OGIEK LEADER RECEIVES DEATH THREAT
03.06.2008 The Ogiek: forgotten victims of Kenya's election violence
05.08.2008 Saving Mau Forest: Ogiek Community Voluntarily Accept Outside Resettlement
2007
07.03.2007 OGIEK ARE BEING KILLED IN MT. ELGON AS PRESIDENT EMILIO KIBAKI OF KENYA REMAINS IN STATEHOUSE, NAIROBI
16.04.2007 APPEAL by the OGIEK
27.07.2007 OGIEK DECLARATION
2006
February 2006 CORRUPTION: ANGLO-LEASING FUNDS COULD HAVE BEEN USED IN EMPOWERING MINORITIES LIVELIHOOD IN KENYA
May 2006 Representative Presentation 'The Forest Guardian' To the Indigenous Minority Unit Fellowship Program - United Nation Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
10.10.2006 Ogiek Clashes with Kipsigis gets to the Fourth Day
18.12.2006 An Ogiek Girl Dies!
2005 or older ...
March 2004 United Nations On Human Rights - Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Minorities - Working Group on Minorities - 10th Session
January 2002 KENYA AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ON MINORITIES - On the violations "Against International Treaties And Conventions"
November 2001 "Settlement of other people in our midst would mean that the Ogiek culture would cease. We will be wiped out." Joseph Towett, Chairman