By Witness Radio team, Mr. Karongo Edward, a smallholder farmer in Kapapi village, is one of the dozens of local farmers slapped with multiple criminal charges...
JOINT STATEMENT Over 45 African and international organizations call on the AfDB to open spaces for civil society and communities during the Annual Meetings and beyond....
Last year’s financial results from the world’s largest fertiliser companies are now in — and it’s a shocker. Given the sky high fertiliser prices of 2022,...
“I am so moved watching the wheat fill up the hold of the ship. It was the loading of hope for so many around the world,”...
By Witness Radio team In 2002, Global Woods Limited allegedly acquired a 49-year lease on 12,182 hectares where thousands of local communities were deriving their livelihood,...
World’s biggest grain trader accused of ‘shoddy due diligence’ on deforestation and alleged rights violations. The world’s largest grain trader, Cargill, is facing a first-ever legal...
JOINT STATEMENT Last week the European Parliament’s legal affairs (JURI) committee adopted its position on the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. Amid strong pressure,...
“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...