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Rights News and Features
Service (RFS) is a Nairobi-based organisation that advances the
development of human rights by raising key issues and highlighting
neglected problems. RFS works hand in hand with human rights organisations
and lobby groups. But we don't just go on about problems. We look
at practical responses to them by allowing people to debate and
act.
This premiere work
on the Ogiek tells the story of an ethnic minority that resides
in the highlands of central Rift Valley of Kenya. It details the
consistent harassment of this community by the administration
and the threat to evict them from their ancestral land.
We hope that this work
will open up debate on the Ogiek and lead to their defence as
a minority group.
We are grateful to
the US-based Digital Freedom Network (DFN) who generously supported
this research and especially the Executive Director, Bobson Wong,
who has had faith in RFS since inception in 1999. RFS continues
to be inspired by its partnership with DFN.
We are also grateful
to our researchers, and many sources of information, Kenya National
Archives, Kalamka Ltd library, and British Council library, Nairobi
and to all Ogiek elders who constantly kept in touch as this research
progressed. We do hope that their rights as a minority group and
an indigenous community will be respected. MORE>>
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