Katiba Institute, established to promote the understanding and implementation of Kenya’s new constitution, has reported that there has been an increase in human rights violations in the Samburu communities of Laikipia, Kenya.
Katiba Institute, established to promote the understanding and implementation of Kenya’s new constitution, has reported that there has been an increase in human rights violations in the Samburu communities of Laikipia, Kenya.
After being in the cold for over five months courtesy of government-sponsored forced evictions and because of broken promises for compensation from the Kenyan President and his deputy, the Maasai community of Narasha is living with uncertainty for the future. According to community leaders, the current actions by KenGen and the committee appointed to look into ways of settling the dispute and compensate those whose houses were razed down by fire in July 201
By Lawrence Reichard
Getting to the Indigenous hamlet of Kia in the Panamanian province of Chiriqui is no walk in the park. First you gotta get to the hot, steamy town of Tole, about six hours west by bus from Panama City. That’s the easy part. Then you ride for the better part of a half-hour in the bed of - or very precariously hanging off the back of - a pickup truck as it crashes over a “road” that would kill my Civic back home dead in a New York minute.
Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reports and condemns the attempted murder of María Santos Domínguez, Coordinator of the Indigenous Advisory Organization of Río Blanco and o