Forest in the Republic of Kenya (hereinafter referred to as “the Respondent State”). 2. The Respondent State became a Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter “the Charter”) on 25 July 2000 and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter “the Protocol”) on 4 February 2004. It has not deposited the Declaration required under Article 34(6) of the Protocol (hereinafter referred to as “the Declaration”) through which States accept the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). II. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION A. Facts of the matter 3. It emerges from the Application that in 2012, the Applicants instituted proceedings in the Respondent State’s Environment and Land Court (hereinafter referred to as “the ELC”) against the Respondent State in connection with their eviction from their ancestral land.1 Pursuant to this suit, the ELC found violations of the rights to life, dignity, non-discrimination, and economic and social rights. It ordered, notably, the National Land Commission to open a register of the members of the Ogiek Community and to identify land to which such members may be resettled. 4. According to the Applicants, the reliefs ordered in the Judgment of this Court in Application 006/2012, on the merits as well as on reparations,2 have 1 Joseph Letuya & 21 Others v. Attorney General & 5 Others [2014] eKLR. African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v. Republic of Kenya (merits) (26 May 2017) 2 AfCLR 9 and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Republic of Kenya, ACtHPR, Application No. 006/2012, Judgment of 23 June 2022 (reparations). 2

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