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DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS

Statement: The Energy Sector Strategy 2024–2028 Must Mark the End of the EBRD’s Support to Fossil Fuels

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is due to publish...

DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 months ago

Uganda: Judicial harassment of environmental and human rights activist Desire Nkurunziza

UGA 001 / 0923 / OBS 037Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 months ago

Uganda: Targeting community land and environmental defenders with criminal offenses is rising as two community land rights defenders arrested in a hotspot district of forced land evictions.

By Witness Radio team As land and environmental rights defenders strive to...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 months ago

Breaking: Criminal trial for seven community defenders opposed to EACOP/Tilenga project forced land eviction has been fixed.

By Witness Radio team The Magistrate court in Hoima City has announced...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS4 months ago

Breaking: Land grabbers hire police officers, kidnap a community land rights defender at gunpoint.

By the Witness Radio team, Four armed men cladding police uniforms working...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS5 months ago

Breaking: Seven cattlemen facing criminal charge stacking for opposing Tilenga oil project-related land grab released on bail.

By Witness Radio team A magistrate court in Hoima City, Mid-Western Uganda,...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS6 months ago

Court dismisses criminal case against the eight land rights defenders in Kiryandongo district for want of prosecution.

By Witness Radio team The Magistrate court in Kiryandongo district has dismissed...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS7 months ago

Close to 20 local farmers are in jail for fighting for their land not to be taken by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

By Witness Radio Team. For the last 50 years, local farmers in...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS8 months ago

Breaking: A defender is kidnapped from his home, sitting on land targeted for large-scale sugarcane growing.

By Witness Radio team A group of people with some believed to...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS9 months ago

Breaking: Mwanga II Court grants bail to two defenders and a Project Affected Person (PAP).1

By Witness Radio team A Magistrate court sitting at Mwanga II road...

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