The rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights on June 23 ordered the Kenyan government to return to the indigenous Ogiek people their ancestral lands. Kenya was also ordered to pay reparations to the community, which has been repeatedly evicted to date. The court decision’s execution by the Kenyan state remains uncertain.
NAKURU COUNTY, Kenya For Joseph Lesingo, a member of the Indigenous Ogiek community, observing the regeneration of previously degraded sections of the Mau Forest has been one of the most fulfilling moments in the past five years. “When I see the expansive lush green over there, I see life,” says Lesingo, pointing toward a large […]