📢Our new CRE Bulletin is out!
🔎 What's inside? Key updates, inspiring stories about community-led struggles, new blogs, useful resources, and much more!
👇Check it out & share it widely!
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A community in Yumbe district has raised serious concerns about allegations of land-grabbing involving an aspirant for Uganda’s Parliamentary Speakership, affecting over 50 families.
#LandGrabbing
@rightsindevt.bsky.social @landrights.bsky.social
Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/a-community-...
Across #Asia communities speaking out about the impacts of #energy transition projects face growing #reprisals.
Today we launched our report "Financing the Transition, Silencing Defenders", which calls on dev’t banks to ensure communities can safely speak out.
bit.ly/silencing-HRDs
Our new global analysis reveals that in 2025 there were nearly 800 attacks against defenders raising concerns about business-related harms. 1/9
Explore here ▶️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...
From polluting coal plants to controversial mines in conflict-affected areas, the @adb.org - despite its sustainability commitments - is investing in projects that are harming the environment and violating human rights.
Check out this short interview with Daniel Willis @re-course.org to learn more!
📢 "Lost in Translation": new blog out!
Last month, the AfDB's Annual Meetings showed once again the wide gap between the Bank’s commitment to CSOs engagement and the realities of participation in practice.
Read our key takeaways 👇 bit.ly/3QnbTDw
Join us in celebrating this landmark victory: in #Uganda, a community successfully campaigned to save the Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve & stop their precious forest from becoming a city.
📢Read more in this blog by our Coalition member Aryampa Brighton (Youth for Green Communities): bit.ly/4fD6oLf
Join us TODAY in person or online for the launch of our new report "Financing the Transition, Silencing Defenders", analysing reprisals against communities & #defenders in the context of #EnergyTransition projects across #Asia.
đź“…Tuesday June 9 - 10:30/12:30
đź“ŤRegister on Zoom: bit.ly/4dyV93A
At the #ADBAGM2026 @re-course.org raised key concerns about:
👉 the Jamshoro coal plant in #Pakistan: lnkd.in/gd-HMGji & ongoing support for fossil gas in Asia: lnkd.in/gB7hBbeg
👉 the Reko Diq copper mine in #Balochistan: lnkd.in/d_2ffWcB
👉 the review of the ADB accountability mechanism
📢 Next week, join us in-person or online for the launch of our new report "Financing the Transition, Silencing Defenders", analysing reprisals against communities & defenders in the context of #EnergyTransition projects across #Asia.
đź“…Tuesday June 9 - 10:30/12:30
đź“ŤRegister on Zoom: bit.ly/4dyV93A
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By Witness Radio Team. More than 50 families in Ochinga village, Achinga South Constituency in Yumbe district, are feeling vulnerable as they face eviction from the land they have lived on for decades...
In January 2026, the communities living near the Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve in Uganda celebrated a victory: after months of mobilization, the government cancelled plans to cut down part of the fo...
