By witnessradio.org Team A report by the Uganda Human Rights Commission indicates that government institutions are responsible for fueling land disputes as poverty levels continue to rise amongst citizens. Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC)

According to a study published in the journal PloS One late last year, the Brazilian Amazon has about 2.3 million square kilometers (nearly 900,000 square miles) of land suitable for oil palm cultivation, making

By witnessradio.org Team, “…Land in Uganda belongs to the citizens of Uganda and shall vest in them in accordance with the land tenure systems provided for in this Constitution…” states article 237 of the

Extracted from treehugger , September 23, 2011 Nzabakulisiza Sirasi, 32, is one of over 20,000 people to have been evicted from their homes in Mubende District, Uganda, since the government licensed land to the

Extracted from the Independent , January, 2012. As people celebrate Christmas, it is a luxury that others can even hardly afford to think about and have spent their last 10 Christmas like that—sad, poor

The British charity Oxfam has released a new report detailing the forced eviction of people from forests in Uganda to make way for a British timber company. The Ugandan government denies the allegations, and says the

By TABU BUTAGIRA KAMPALA A British firm accused by Oxfam International of illegally evicting some 20,000 Ugandan peasants from arable land to plant trees yesterday suspended operations, a decision it said stemmed from loss

KICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner. People here remember it quite differently.

Over 20,000 people were forced from their homes the central districts of Mubende and Kiboga to pave way for a tree planting project by a British company, Oxfam said in a report and called

By witnessradio.org Team as extracted from Author’s report… A very different story was told by the New Forest company sent to audit NFC for the FSC certification of its Namwasa plantation in Mubende. The

By witnessradio.org Team, a Third Series The story of neighbouring Mubende just months later echoes the events of the 2008– 2010 Kiboga evictions. In both cases, the local people believed they had legal claims

By witnessradio.org Team, as extracted from Oxfam report Oxfam research indicated that around 7,400 people were living on the Namwasa plantation and at least 15,191 people on the Luwunga plantation. NFC and government officials

witnessradio.org is running the report in series When the New Forests Company (NFC) was formed in 2004 its management’s aim was for it to become East Africa’s biggest forester. The UK registered company has

  Francis Longoli, a small farmer from Kiboga district of central Uganda, is tearful: “I remember my land, three acres of coffee, many trees – mangoes and avocados. I had five acres of bananas, 10

London-based New Forests Company (NFC) would seem to be the design blueprint of how a young modern company should conduct a major land investment in Africa in a responsible way. Oxfam’s investigations reveal, however,

Written by Observer Media Ltd          Uganda Law Society High Court judge Justice Anup Singh Choudry has stirred controversy with a judgment in which he slapped a Shs 37bn bill on

Written by Edris Kiggundu   March 31, 2013 Uganda Law Society declares war on him Justice Anup Singh Choudry has ordered two prominent lawyers to pay Shs 37 billion for allegedly being ‘dishonest’ in a case

Author: Business & Human rights centre Para la versión en español de este perfil de las demandas judiciales, haga clic acá.   In August 2002 a group of Ugandans filed a criminal complaint against Kaweri

By Chrispin Mwakideu and Leylah Ndinda : 26/08/2013 In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a German coffee firm on a 99-year lease. The

Progress achieved in addressing the situation of the 4000 evictees in Mubende will again be under review, at the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural and Social Rights. For the first time compliance with

July 22, 2009 Written by joomlasupport Mubende-based Kaweri Coffee Plantation Ltd. is embroiled in controversy after its parent company, the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) of Hamburg, Germany, was accused of unlawfully evicting peasants from their

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural and Social Rights (CESCR) calls on the State of Uganda to take immediate measures to ensure that the rights of those forcibly evicted from Mubende District

Despite more than a decade of mobilization and legal struggle, Mubende evictees have not yet seen justice and continue to suffer the collateral consequences of this brutal act. Today, 15 years ago, the Uganda

By witnessradio.org Team To an outsider or a less interested person in what’s going on in Mubende might think targeting and incarcerating community leaders opposed to illegal land evictions is a new method. This

              By witnessradio.org Mubende district being of the oldest district established in 1905, it hadn’t experience until the 20th century when the demand for land at global level

Rwamutonga residents confined in an IDP camp setting after being evicted to pave way for the oil treatment plant.