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State fails to produce a key witness, prematurely closes its prosecution in the trial of the eight land rights defenders State fails to produce a key witness, prematurely closes its prosecution in the trial of the eight land rights defenders
State fails to produce a key witness, prematurely closes its prosecution in the trial of the eight land rights defenders
The committee calls for the protection of projects’ host communities. The committee calls for the protection of projects’ host communities.
The committee calls for the protection of projects’ host communities.
Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit: “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit: “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit: “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
Mubende police arrest and charge farmers that workers of a tree-planting company attacked. Mubende police arrest and charge farmers that workers of a tree-planting company attacked.
Mubende police arrest and charge farmers that workers of a tree-planting company attacked.
URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists
URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists
Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020; are set to return to court this January. Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020; are set to return to court this January.
Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020; are set to return to court this January.
Falling coffee prices, reduced output forecasts rattle Uganda farmers Falling coffee prices, reduced output forecasts rattle Uganda farmers
Falling coffee prices, reduced output forecasts rattle Uganda farmers
Leaders adamant on ending charcoal trade Leaders adamant on ending charcoal trade
Leaders adamant on ending charcoal trade
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Defending Land And Environmental Rights11 months ago

Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day
Accountable Development To Communities11 months ago

Uganda government ignores its directive on COVID evictions, evicts thousands of smallholder farmers, artisanal miners.

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Defending Land And Environmental Rights1 week ago

Mubende police arrest and charge farmers that workers of a tree-planting company attacked.
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Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit: “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
Accountable Development To Communities1 day ago

The committee calls for the protection of projects’ host communities.
Defending Land And Environmental Rights1 day ago

State fails to produce a key witness, prematurely closes its prosecution in the trial of the eight land rights defenders
NGO work1 week ago

URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists
Defending Land And Environmental Rights1 day ago

State fails to produce a key witness, prematurely closes its prosecution in the trial of the eight land rights defenders
Accountable Development To Communities1 day ago

The committee calls for the protection of projects’ host communities.
Petitions6 days ago

Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit: “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
Defending Land And Environmental Rights1 week ago

Mubende police arrest and charge farmers that workers of a tree-planting company attacked.
NGO work1 week ago

URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists
Defending Land And Environmental Rights2 weeks ago

Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020; are set to return to court this January.
farm news2 weeks ago

Falling coffee prices, reduced output forecasts rattle Uganda farmers
Defending Land And Environmental Rights2 weeks ago

Leaders adamant on ending charcoal trade
Investments And Rights To Food3 weeks ago

How land grabs are causing food insecurity: A case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
farm news3 weeks ago

Over 40 goats die of PPR disease in Madi-Okollo
Environment And Renewable Energy3 weeks ago

EACOP Partners With Surveyors Body as Pipeline Land Acquisition Nears Completion.
Livelihood, Land And Investment3 weeks ago

Government orders arrest of notorious land grabber in Mubende district.
Investments And Rights To Food3 weeks ago

A dead body recovered in a resident’s garden is causing sleepless nights to community members in fear of arrests and false charges.

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Livelihood, Land And Investment3 weeks ago

Government orders arrest of notorious land grabber in Mubende district.

By Witness Radio team The government of Uganda has ordered the Police in Mubende to oversee the arrest of a  land grabber...
Livelihood, Land And Investment5 months ago

Land grabs: Officials in Mubende district are colluding with economically powerful and politically connected people to grab local communities’ land.
Livelihood, Land And Investment5 months ago

A community of over 300 smallholder farmers conned as their land is sold to a local investor without their consent.
Accountable Development To Communities7 months ago

A self-claimed landlord who caused the imprisonment of six community land rights defenders on false charges was aligned before the court and charged with 28 counts.
Defending Land And Environmental Rights7 months ago

Six community land rights defenders from Kawaala have turned up at police for interrogations but, failed to take off
Defending Land And Environmental Rights7 months ago

A self-claimed landlord who masterminded the imprisonment of six community land rights defenders for three years has been arrested.
Livelihood, Land And Investment7 months ago

Six community land rights defenders have been set free after spending three years on remand without trial on murder charges.
Defending Land And Environmental Rights7 months ago

Police harassment: Six land rights defenders from Kawaala have been summoned for interrogation.
Defending Land And Environmental Rights8 months ago

As the court starts to hear a case filed against Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, president Museveni offers to compensate forced eviction victims
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Falling coffee prices, reduced output forecasts rattle Uganda farmers
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Over 40 goats die of PPR disease in Madi-Okollo
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Artisanal gold miners defy government on mercury use
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Innovative Finance from Canada projects positive impact on local communities.
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Over 5000 Indigenous Communities evicted in Kiryandongo District
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Petition To Land Inquiry Commission Over Human Rights In Kiryandongo District
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Invisible victims of Uganda Land Grabs
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Citizens in Kiryandongo forced to sign land sell agreements on Gun point by armed officers

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Accountable Development To Communities7 months ago

Breaking: Three community land rights defenders from Kawaala have been arrested.

Breaking: Three community land rights defenders from Kawaala have been arrested. By Witness Radio team Police at Old Kampala Regional...
Accountable Development To Communities10 months ago

Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda…
Accountable Development To Communities11 months ago

Breaking: over 350,000 acres of land were grabbed during Witness Radio – Uganda’s seven months ban.
Accountable Development To Communities2 years ago

Why UN Food systems summit is irrelevant to Uganda’s smallholder farmers: A case of capitalism pushing the poor away from family land
Accountable Development To Communities2 years ago

Breaking Alert! A community fighting forced eviction during COVID-19 lockdown, Witness Radio-Uganda together with Accountability Counsel file a complaint before the World Bank’s Inspection Panel…
THE WITNESS2 years ago

Court asked to block gov’t from paying UGX 647 billion loan
Defending Land And Environmental Rights2 years ago

More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
Defending Land And Environmental Rights2 years ago

A land broker in the Kiryandongo land grab saga is charged with fraud, forgery…
Livelihood, Land And Investment2 years ago

In memory of land and investment women victims in Uganda on the International Women’s Day 2021
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Google Internet project closes in Uganda.
Environment And Renewable Energy2 years ago

Human Rights Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo is out on bail…
Environment And Renewable Energy2 years ago

Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo denied bail, remanded again…
Environment And Renewable Energy2 years ago

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review
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Two Witness Radio – legal team members, Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo abducted…
Technology2 years ago

The World Bank and its partners flout business and human rights standards to evict hundreds of families