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...
Kampala, Uganda. The Uganda Law Society and two Civil Society Organisations have filed another petition challenging the planned giveaway of part of Bugoma forest reserve in...
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...
A girl walks on a gas pipeline running through Okrika community near Nigeria’s oil hub city of Port Harcourt, Dec. 4, 2012. A new $3.5 billion...
By witnessradio.org Team Kiryandongo – Uganda – Barely less than a week after Witness Radio – Uganda flagged the abduction of a land rights defender Atyaluk...
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,...
A photo of Kyakatebe trading center seated on a community’s land being grabbed By witnessradio.org Team Kassanda – Uganda – More than 20,000 people from 3...
By witnessradio.org Team Amuru – Uganda – A total of 158 residents of Atoro village, Amuru Sub-County in Amuru district have renewed demands for compensation of...