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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS TO LANDS, TERRITORIES AND RESOURCES RELATED TO DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND OCCUPATION: CASE STUDY ON PRACTICES OF PASTORALISM AND HUNTING-GATHERING IN KENYA REPORT PREPARED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION Dr. Naomi Kipuri, Consultant executive Director, Arid Lands Institute Assisted by Lucas Ole Naikuni Advocate of the High Court, Kenya February 2008  Table of contents Acknowledgements 4 List of acronyms 5 1.0. Background to the study 6 1.1 Objectives of the study 7 1.2 Significance of the study 7 2.0. Methodology 8 2.1 Methods of Data Collection 8 2.2 Data analysis 8 2.3 Scope of the study 8 3.0 Main Findings of the study 9 3.1 Pastoralism and hunting-gathering in the national context 9 3.2. ILO Convention No. 111 10 3.3 The Maasai 11 3.3.1. Livelihoods 11 3.3.2. Pastoralists and the State 11 3.3.3. Alienation of land, territories and natural resources 12 3.4. The Ogiek and Endorois 13 3.4.1. Hunter Gathers and the State 13 3.4.2. Alienation of their land, territories and natural resources 14 3.5. Kenya’s Policy framework in relation to traditional occupations of indigenous pastoralists and hunter-gathers. 15 3.5.1. The Forest Policy 15 3.5.2. The Wildlife Policy (Sessional Paper No. 3 of 1975). 16 3.5.3. The National Land Policy 17 3.5.4. ASAL policies 17 3.6. Kenya’s legal framework in relation to traditional occupations of indigenous peoples 19 3.6.1. The Kenyan Constitution 20 3.6.2. Laws relating to land 21 3.6.3. The Crown Lands Ordinance 1915 22 3.6.4. The 1919 Registration of Titles Ordinance 22 3.6.5. The Native Lands Trust ordinance, 1938 22 3.6.6. The Registered Land Laws, Cap 300 23 3.6.7. The Group (Representatives) Act, Cap. 287 23 3.6.8. Laws relating to Environment and Biodiversity Conservation 24 3.6.9. Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act 1999 24 3.6.10. Laws relating to Labour and Employment 24 3.6.11. Laws relating to natural resources- water, forests, wildlife and minerals 24 3.6.