Category: Community Stories

Communities once resettled by President Museveni in Kiryandongo now find themselves losing their land to a sugarcane investor, accusing the Uganda Land Commission of granting a leasehold behind their backs.

Communities once resettled by President Museveni in Kiryandongo now find themselves losing their land to a sugarcane investor, accusing the Uganda Land Commission of granting a leasehold behind their backs.

Uganda is grappling with mounting land struggles as the needs of refugees collide with the rights and hopes of the communities that host them.

Uganda is grappling with mounting land struggles as the needs of refugees collide with the rights and hopes of the communities that host them.

As TotalEnergies’ profits soar, calls are growing for the company to answer for the human rights abuses and environmental damage linked to EACOP.

As TotalEnergies’ profits soar, calls are growing for the company to answer for the human rights abuses and environmental damage linked to EACOP.

Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands.

Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands.

Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks.

Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks.

Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say.

Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say.

The untold struggle of community land right defenders in eastern DRC’s three-decade war.

The untold struggle of community land right defenders in eastern DRC’s three-decade war.

More than 17,000 people in the Philippines face eviction from their ancestral land for a multimillion-dollar energy project.

More than 17,000 people in the Philippines face eviction from their ancestral land for a multimillion-dollar energy project.

Peruvian communities have launched a global petition to halt a mining project they say threatens the water supply of over 10 million people.

Peruvian communities have launched a global petition to halt a mining project they say threatens the water supply of over 10 million people.

NEMA says it is restoring wetlands, but poor urban families say it is using the exercise to grab their land for new infrastructure projects – now they demand compensation and resettlement.

NEMA says it is restoring wetlands, but poor urban families say it is using the exercise to grab their land for new infrastructure projects – now they demand compensation and resettlement.