Michael Lolwerikoi, representing the Samburu people of Kenya, and Ellen Lutz, executive director of Cultural Survival, presented Cultural Survival’s report, “When the Police are the Perpetrators,” to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people during the meeting of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, April 18-30. The 32-page report, written by Cultural Survival’s Global Response program director Paula Palmer and human rights expert Chris Allan, documents violent attacks by Kenyan police forc
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