Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights

The Human Rights Watch (HRW), WITNESS and the Endorois lawyers have described a ruling by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights condemning the expulsion of the Endorois people from their land in Kenya as a major victory for indigenous peoples across Africa.

The Commission ruled that the Endorois' eviction from their traditional land for tourism development violated their human rights.

The Kenyan government evicted the Endorois people, a traditional pastoralist community, from their homes at Lake Bogoria in the Rift Valley of Kenya in the 1970s, to make way for a national reserve and tourist facilities.

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