“All over the world the positive achievements of human rights defenders too often go unrecognised. Defenders are targeted because they confront powerful vested interests by protecting...
Brazil’s Cerrado region, the most biodiverse savannah in the world, is home to the geraizeiros, a native population of mixed Afro-Indigenous and European descent. Since their...
Over 42 civil society organisations (CSOs) and a network of aggrieved people in Uganda whose land is being compulsorily acquired for the East African Crude Oil...
By Witness Radio Team. For the last 50 years, local farmers in Waaki North, Kapapi Central, Waaki South, Runga, and Kiryatete villages in both Kapapi and...
In November 2022, word got out that Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the freshly minted president of the Philippines, wanted to set up a sovereign wealth fund. People...
By Witness Radio team, 10th February 2023 will remain poignant in the lives of hundreds of Kapapi residents whose livelihoods were lost in a forced eviction...
4 April 2023, Arusha: Tomorrow, 5 April 2023, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) will hear arguments for and against the objection to the court’s...
At least 401 defenders killed in 26 countries for their peaceful work in 2022 Despite an assault on human rights and the rule of law in...
Accountability Counsel, along with other civil society organizations, expresses alarm over a recent announcement by the World Bank Accountability Mechanism that its final operating procedures would...
By Witness Radio team As illegal land evictions escalate in Uganda, land speculators and grabbers with the help of District Land Boards, continue to target and...