  In the late $70$'s Feldman and Moore defined the cohomology associated to a
countable equivalence relation with coefficients in an Abelian Polish group.
When the equivalence relation is the orbital one, that is it is induced by a
measure preserving action of a countable group $\Gamma$ on a standard Borel
probability space $(X,\mu)$, it still makes sense to consider the
Feldmann-Moore $1$-cohomology with $G$-coefficients, where this time $G$ can be
any topological group. The latter cohomology, denoted by $H^1(\Gamma
\curvearrowright X;G)$, is very misterious and hard to compute, except for some
exceptional cases.
  In this expository paper we are going to focus our attention on the
particular case when $\Gamma$ is a finitely generated group and $G$ is a
Hermitian Lie group. We are going to give some recent rigidity results in this
context and we will see how those results can be used to say something relevant
about (some subsets of) the orbital cohomology.
