The European Union has suspended funding to its Water Towers Protection and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Programme. The announcement came one day after the EU-funded Kenya Forest Service carried out a raid on the indigenous Sengwer’s land in the Embobut forest. During the raid, a Kenya Forest Service guard shot and killed Robert Kirotich,…
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Implement in haste, repent at leisure: Critical new report on the World Bank’s Carbon Fund by FERN and Forest Peoples Programme
“Unless major changes are made in FCPF planning, design and validation of emissions reduction programmes to ensure alignment with the FCPF Charter and international human rights standards, the FCPF Carbon Fund risks enabling seriously flawed REDD pilots that could generate negative impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities as the FCPF moves towards implementation of…
Forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities’ human rights and ancestral forests
Forest Peoples Programme reports that police troops in Kenya have been sent to the Embobut forest to evict thousands of indigenous Sengwer and Cherangany communities.
Urgent appeal against the forced eviction of Sengwer/Cherangany communities in Kenya
Forest Peoples Programme has put out an appeal against the forced eviction of 6,000-7,000 indigenous people and other communities from the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. FFP, together with communities and partners on the ground are asking organisations to sign on to the appeal.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fails to uphold workers’ rights and indigenous peoples’ rights
Earlier this month, two meetings took place, both focussing on oil palm plantations. The first was a meeting of communities and civil society and took place in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The second was the 11th meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.