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The Endorois explore opportunities to include women in the implementation process regarding the ACHPR ruling

The Endorois Welfare Council (EWC) and ESCR-Net’s Strategic Litigation Working Group, with the lead of Dejusticia and Minority Rights Group International, organized a new meeting in Nakuru (Kenya) on July 4-5, 2015, bringing together more than 30 community members,...

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Workshop in Africa to Advance Women’s ESCR

The ESCR-Net's Women and ESCR Working Group brought together 35 African women’s rights advocates in Nairobi, Kenya, 16-18 June 2015, for the ‘International Mechanisms to Claim Women’s ESC Rights in Africa: Regional...

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Ogiek Peoples' Development Program (OPDP)

Country: 
Kenya
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
Women & ESCR
OP-ICESCR

Natural Resources Alliance of Kenya (KeNRA)

Country: 
Kenya
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
Corporate Accountability
OP-ICESCR
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2015

Africa Regional Workshop on Women and ESCR

This workshop is part of a series of regional learning dialogues and strategy meetings that the ESCR-Net Women and ESCR Working Group is facilitating (with the first in Mexico, in November 2014). The workshop will bring together more than 30 participants...

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Members in Kenya and Uganda call on World Bank to end support for privatization of education

Hakijami, ISER and GI-ESCR, together with allies, expressed their concerns about the World Bank’s expressed support for the development of a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools 

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African Court to hear Ogiek community land rights case against the Kenyan government

Natural Resources Alliance of Kenya, Okieg and Minority Rights Group continue advocacy against the Kenyan government for ongoing violations and denial of the Okeig's land rights

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First meeting of the Kenyan task force for the implementation of the Endorois decision

Several ESCR-Net members joined a first meeting of the Task Force created by the Kenyan government to address the ACHPR’s ruling on the Endorois case

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Implementing the ACHPR’s ruling on the Endorois case

ESCR-Net members explore new regional mechanisms for ruling and assuring dialogue between the Kenyan government and the community

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Endorois' consent should be obtained regarding decisions over their lands

Minority Rights Group International welcomes the adoption by the World Heritage Committee of a decision requiring the government of Kenya to ‘ensure full and effective participation of the Enderois in the management of Lake Bogoria through their own representative institutions'

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