Uganda: A decade of land grabs with impunity
- Ugandan Land Defenders
- 14 October 2021
A Chinese company is now grabbing land in Mubende district that is owned by imprisoned defenders and that is used by the elderly.
Uganda
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Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day
- Ugandan land defenders
- 20 September 2021
In Uganda, land grabbed by local land brokers are immediately handed over to foreign companies, which then often grow the same crops as the villagers were growing before they were evicted.
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Uganda government ignores its directive on COVID evictions, evicts thousands of smallholder farmers, artisanal miners.
- Ugandan land defenders
- 14 September 2021
With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda, poor families continue to be forced off their land by their government and investors despite several directives halting evictions during the COVID period.
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Open letter to African Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund: Address reprisals against Paten Clan
- https://rightsindevelopment.org/news/open-letter-to-african-development-bank-and-nordic-development-fund-address-reprisals-against-paten-clan/
- 09 September 2021
An open letter has been sent to the AfDB and Nordic Development Fund, calling on them to take immediate action to address reprisals against a community in Uganda impacted by the Wadelai irrigation project.
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Landgrabs at gunpoint escalate in Uganda as the operations of a defender of affected communities are suspended
- Ugandan land defenders
- 07 September 2021
Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance', including Witness-Radio, which has been defending several communities whose lands have been grabbed by foreign agribusinesses.
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Why UN Food systems summit is irrelevant to Uganda’s smallholder farmers: A case of capitalism pushing the poor away from family land
- Witness Radio
- 03 August 2021
Uganda still grapples with mass forced evictions being aided by international development financiers that are hosted and protected by big nations.
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As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land
- Witness Radio
- 30 June 2021
As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.
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A senior lands officer is arrested in connection to the Kiryandongo district land grab
- Witness Radio
- 17 June 2021
The stolen land belonged to families that are part of the 35000 people being forcefully displaced by three multinational companies including Great Seasons SMC Limited, Agilis Partners Limited, and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited.
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More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
- Witness Radio
- 10 June 2021
Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.
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Ouganda : Les accaparements de terres et les expulsions forcées d'agriculteurs se sont multipliés pendant le confinement imposé par Covid-19
- FIDES
- 20 May 2021
"La situation s'aggrave alors que les populations de districts entiers sont déplacées de force de leurs terres", indique un rapport du Denis Hurley Peace Institute
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Uganda: El acaparamiento de tierras y la deportación forzosa de campesinos aumentan durante el encierro por Covid-19
- Agencia Fides
- 20 May 2021
"Las élites ricas violan los derechos de los pobres al quedarse con sus tierras. El gobierno no hace nada al respecto. Por el contrario, promueve estas actividades"
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After being tortured by the army, the land rights defender is charged and remanded to prison
- Witness Radio
- 22 April 2021
A community land rights defender who was kidnapped from his home and tortured by Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers guarding Kiryandongo Sugar Limited has been arraigned before a magistrate court in Kiryandongo district and charged with threatening violence.
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