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EU suspends funding to conservation and climate project in Kenya, one day after a Kenya Forest Service guard shot and killed an indigenous Sengwer man

Posted on 17 January 201819 June 2020

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

Posted on 9 May 20144 March 2015

“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…

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Forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities’ human rights and ancestral forests

Posted on 7 January 201419 June 2020

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.

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Urgent appeal against the forced eviction of Sengwer/Cherangany communities in Kenya

Posted on 26 December 201319 June 2020

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.

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The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fails to uphold workers’ rights and indigenous peoples’ rights

Posted on 20 November 20135 August 2015

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.

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