Kampala – Uganda, a community land rights defender in the Kawaala community who is leading affected community members to resist a forced eviction by Kampala Capital...
Meeting of artisanal miners in Uganda With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda, poor families continue to be forced off their land by their government and...
Land grabs facilitated by multinational corporations, foreign investors and local governments in a pursuit for agribusiness have been escalating during the last decade. Huge acquisitions of...
By Witnessradio.org Team Geneva – Switzerland – three UN Special Rapporteurs have presented a report on the deteriorating human rights situation in Kiryandongo and Hoima districts...
By witnessradio.org Team A community land rights defender who was kidnapped from his home and tortured by Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers guarding Kiryandongo Sugar...
Baluma (wearing a coat) and some of his family members. …….Special Report; abridged testimony……. ABDUCTION AND TORTURE: New methods used by multinationals and security agencies to...
Close to 120 land rights defenders and lawyers representing PAPs have been arbitrarily arrested by security forces facilitating land grabs for investors during COVID-19 lockdown. A...
By witnessradio.org Team Kiryandongo – Uganda – the searching exercise has yielded results…! After days of searching for the abducted land rights defender in Kiryandongo by...
A photo of 8 land rights defenders from right Ramu, Ndahimana, Amos Wafula, Martin Haweka, Martin Munyansia, Eliot Talemwa, Samuel Kusiima, George Rwakabisha and Fred Mwawula,...
By witnessradio.org Team. Apac – Uganda – thousands of cattle keepers surrounding Maruzi Ranch in Apac district are stranded following an order by the proprietor of...