Category: Community Stories

Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation.

Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation.

NEMA ‘evictions’: how the process reveals NEMA’s mistakes and failures to ascertain whether people who have lived on their land in Kawaala since the 1940s are lawful occupants.

NEMA ‘evictions’: how the process reveals NEMA’s mistakes and failures to ascertain whether people who have lived on their land in Kawaala since the 1940s are lawful occupants.

Accountability in Crisis: Development banks, while funding Asia’s energy transition, are accused of silencing Asian local and Indigenous communities, highlighting the central tension between a clean-energy push and the repression of those most affected.

Accountability in Crisis: Development banks, while funding Asia’s energy transition, are accused of silencing Asian local and Indigenous communities, highlighting the central tension between a clean-energy push and the repression of those most affected.

The 2nd edition of East Africa Business and Human Rights opens in Nairobi, highlighting the critical issue of African States’ limited participation in global treaty-making, which risks leaving the continent’s specific needs unaddressed.

The 2nd edition of East Africa Business and Human Rights opens in Nairobi, highlighting the critical issue of African States’ limited participation in global treaty-making, which risks leaving the continent’s specific needs unaddressed.

Buvuma residents drove off surveyors as they resisted the surveying of their land targeted for palm oil tree planting.

Buvuma residents drove off surveyors as they resisted the surveying of their land targeted for palm oil tree planting.

World Environment Day 2026: Environmental Advocates warn of rising ecological costs arising from Uganda’s land-based investments.

World Environment Day 2026: Environmental Advocates warn of rising ecological costs arising from Uganda’s land-based investments.

Court Ruling: RDCs and police cannot stop lawful land evictions.

Court Ruling: RDCs and police cannot stop lawful land evictions.

The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems.

The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems.

CSOs demand a stronger UNDP accountability mechanism to offer meaningful redress to victims.

CSOs demand a stronger UNDP accountability mechanism to offer meaningful redress to victims.

Food systems in conflict areas: Architectures of armed conflict are turning food and hunger into weapons of war.

Food systems in conflict areas: Architectures of armed conflict are turning food and hunger into weapons of war.