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DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Land grabs: Officials in Mubende district are colluding with economically powerful and politically connected people to grab local communities’ land.

By Witness Radio Team Justine Nakachwa (not her real name) had never...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

A community of over 300 smallholder farmers conned as their land is sold to a local investor without their consent.

By Witness Radio Team As foreign agribusinesses take over Kiryandongo communities’ fertile...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Thousands of smallholder farmers in Uganda have forcefully lost their land in exchange for carbon offset projects.

By Witness Radio Team. For over a decade now, a forest regulator,...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Breaking: Ministries, gov’t departments, and security organs in syndicate forced eviction of an urban-poor community to give way for an infrastructural project.

By Witness Radio Team Barely twenty-one (21) months after a team of...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Breaking: Court dismisses a criminal case against a community land rights defender for want of prosecution.

By Witness Radio Team. Kiryandongo. A criminal trespass case against a community...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

After 15 years of anguish, NFC evictees reunite to rent land to fight food insecurity

By Witness Radio – Uganda. Thousands of poor smallholder farmers that lost...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Kawaala community land rights defenders will report for police bond for the fourth time on 1st August.

By Witness Radio – Uganda team Kampala, the three community land rights...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

The New Forests Company in Uganda: Villages Evicted, Deceived and Dumped into Poverty

In the early 2000s, neighbouring villages envied Kanamire, a village located in...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Police re-arrest and interrogate Kawaala Community land rights defenders upon reporting back on bond.

By Witness Radio Team Kampala, Two of the three community land rights...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

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

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

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