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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...