By Witness Radio Team, In the Visayas and Mindanao regions, in the Iloilo municipality on Panay Island in the central Philippines, thousands of Indigenous Tumandok people face forced displacement as a...

By the Witness Radio team. In Kyankwanzi District, central region of Uganda, tens of thousands of people displaced to make way for the Kikonda Forest Plantation say they are still waiting for justice ...

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...

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...

By Witness Radio Team For millions in eastern DRC, the war is not an event; it is a daily reality that people have lived in for the past three decades. After being dispossessed from his land, Moise (n...

By the Witness Radio team. KAMPALA, Uganda—The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court sentenced eight environmental activists to 11 months in prison for “public nuisance.” The court ruled that their pr...

By the Witness Radio team. For more than eight years, the landscape of Kiryandongo district in western Uganda has undergone significant changes, shifting from being occupied by local farmers to a viol...

By Witness Radio Team In southern Tanzania, a conservation project supported by one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions has caused violence, fear, and ruined livelihoods. The project, ...

Bank shifts stance to greenlight to extraction of critical minerals

Di pesisir Desa Fatufia, Kecamatan Bahodopi, Kabupaten Morowali, Sulawesi Tengah, terdapat sebuah dusun kecil bernama Kurisa. Bagi warganya—mayoritas masyarakat adat suku Bajo—laut bukan sekadar benta...

The Uzbek government is violating the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system, including penalties such as land seizure for not meeting quotas.

By Witness Radio team Indigenous Yakthung (Limbu) communities in eastern Nepal have fought hard for recognition after the World Bank Group’s accountability mechanism acknowledged a complaint about rig...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, call on the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to take urgent and concrete action…