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Securing Our Rights to Live, Govern, Manage, and Own our Ancestral Lands in Embobut Forest is a Solution to Climate Change - Not Evictions: The Case of the Sengwer Indigenous Peoples of Kenya

  • Aeroport de Paris-Le Bourget 180 Esplanade de l’Air et de l’Espace, 93350 Paris France (map)

Organizers: Forest and Indigenous Peoples Network (Kenya)

 This talk will examine Kenya policies on forests and climate change and draw on the specific case of the Sengwer people who are being evicted from their forest homes by the Kenyan government in the name of climate protection.

Location: Indigenous Peoples Pavilion (Round House) 

Speaker: Mr. Yator Kiptum, local leader and activist

Contact:  Tom Griffiths, tom@forestpeoples.org; Yator Kiptumyat.orr@gmail.com