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Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison. Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison.
Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison.
EACOP: The number of activists arrested for opposing the project is already soaring in just a few months of 2025 EACOP: The number of activists arrested for opposing the project is already soaring in just a few months of 2025
EACOP: The number of activists arrested for opposing the project is already soaring in just a few months of 2025
The World Bank Must Be Held Accountable for Harm Inflicted on Tanzanian Communities by Tourism Project The World Bank Must Be Held Accountable for Harm Inflicted on Tanzanian Communities by Tourism Project
The World Bank Must Be Held Accountable for Harm Inflicted on Tanzanian Communities by Tourism Project
‘Left to suffer’: Kenyan villagers take on Bamburi Cement over assaults, dog attacks ‘Left to suffer’: Kenyan villagers take on Bamburi Cement over assaults, dog attacks
‘Left to suffer’: Kenyan villagers take on Bamburi Cement over assaults, dog attacks
River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine
River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine
The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway. The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway.
The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway.
Latest: Buganda Road Court grants bail to Eleven Ugandan environmental activists after spending over a week on remand. Latest: Buganda Road Court grants bail to Eleven Ugandan environmental activists after spending over a week on remand.
Latest: Buganda Road Court grants bail to Eleven Ugandan environmental activists after spending over a week on remand.
Buvuma Palm Oil Tree Growing: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges. Buvuma Palm Oil Tree Growing: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges.
Buvuma Palm Oil Tree Growing: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges.
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DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 years ago

Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day
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Uganda government ignores its directive on COVID evictions, evicts thousands of smallholder farmers, artisanal miners.

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The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway.
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EACOP: The number of activists arrested for opposing the project is already soaring in just a few months of 2025
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Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison.
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River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine
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Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison.
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS5 days ago

EACOP: The number of activists arrested for opposing the project is already soaring in just a few months of 2025
NGO WORK5 days ago

The World Bank Must Be Held Accountable for Harm Inflicted on Tanzanian Communities by Tourism Project
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‘Left to suffer’: Kenyan villagers take on Bamburi Cement over assaults, dog attacks
SPECIAL REPORTS AND PROJECTS7 days ago

River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 weeks ago

The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway.
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 weeks ago

Latest: Buganda Road Court grants bail to Eleven Ugandan environmental activists after spending over a week on remand.
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS3 weeks ago

Buvuma Palm Oil Tree Growing: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges.
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS4 weeks ago

Another group of eleven environmental activists have been charged with common nuisance and remanded to Luzira Prison for opposing the EACOP project.
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Businesses, banks and activists resist EC plans to strip back human rights legislation
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The CSOs’ Appeal to hear the EACOP case on merit is a crucial development, with the ruling now awaited.
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EACOP: The trial of 20 environmental activists failed to take off, and now they want the case dismissed for lack of prosecution.
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As Uganda awaits the Energy Efficiency and Conservation law, plans to develop a five-year plan are underway.

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Witness Radio petitions chief prosecutor: Want 34 community land rights defenders and activists released from prison.

By Witness Radio team. In the Hoima District, Western Uganda, an urgent and immediate action is crucial to halt an...
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 weeks ago

The joint final review of the National Land Policy 2013, a significant and collaborative effort between the government and Civil society organizations, is underway.
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK4 weeks ago

Businesses, banks and activists resist EC plans to strip back human rights legislation
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK1 month ago

The CSOs’ Appeal to hear the EACOP case on merit is a crucial development, with the ruling now awaited.
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK1 month ago

As Uganda awaits the Energy Efficiency and Conservation law, plans to develop a five-year plan are underway.
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 months ago

Palm oil plantation expansion: A disturbing alliance between a palm oil company, district officials, and a college school is actively seizing land from farming communities in Buvuma district for their own profit.
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 months ago

The Taiwanese investor & Others: Dozens of community land and environmental rights defenders are in prison for opposing his aggressive land acquisition tactics.
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 months ago

Details Revealed: Who’s a Taiwanese Investor linked to forcefully taking over 2500 hectares of land that belonged to local farmers in the Mubende district for a tree plantation project?
MEDIA FOR CHANGE NETWORK2 months ago

An early bird: oil-affected communities have launched a petition to the Lands Ministry, seeking protection of their rights in the face of forced acquisitions.
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Enemies of the State: Resistance to the EACOP becomes a deadly task

It is no secret: in Uganda it is badly about human rights. With the construction of the East African Crude...
DEFENDING LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS2 years ago

Statement: The Energy Sector Strategy 2024–2028 Must Mark the End of the EBRD’s Support to Fossil Fuels
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Breaking: Three community land rights defenders from Kawaala have been arrested.
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Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda…
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Breaking: over 350,000 acres of land were grabbed during Witness Radio – Uganda’s seven months ban.
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Why UN Food systems summit is irrelevant to Uganda’s smallholder farmers: A case of capitalism pushing the poor away from family land
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Breaking Alert! A community fighting forced eviction during COVID-19 lockdown, Witness Radio-Uganda together with Accountability Counsel file a complaint before the World Bank’s Inspection Panel…
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Court asked to block gov’t from paying UGX 647 billion loan
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More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
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SPECIAL REPORTS AND PROJECTS7 days ago

‘Left to suffer’: Kenyan villagers take on Bamburi Cement over assaults, dog attacks
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River ‘dies’ after massive acidic waste spill at Chinese-owned copper mine
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How Carbon Markets are Exploiting Marginalised Communities in the Global South Instead of Uplifting them
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Will more sovereign wealth funds mean less food sovereignty?
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Farmland values hit record highs, pricing out farmers
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Ugandan communities battle to benefit from mining on their land