Human-rights cases · Uganda
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- Joint allegation letter — Uganda (4/2024)UN Special ProceduresallegationUganda · 2024-12-19 · Torture mandate (ICCPR Art. 7 / CAT)
Information received updated concerning allegations of the severe environmental, climate and human rights impacts as well as a systematic pattern of oppression and human rights violations against environmental human rights defenders in Uganda in relation with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and the Tilenga and Kingfisher Projects. According to the information received these include at least 129 alleged arrests and detentions; the incommunicado detentions and ill-treatment of multiple environmental human rights defenders, including recurrent arrests and detentions; and forced disappearances; the forced eviction of more than 42 communities; and widespread judicial harassment. These attacks and threats appear to be directly related to the legitimate human rights activities of the environmental human rights defenders, especially their defence of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Reports indicate that such alleged pattern of human rights violations has been ongoing since at least 2022 and persists to this date. Alleged victims: 16 More details...
- Joint allegation letter — Uganda (5/2022)UN Special ProceduresallegationUganda · 2022-10-20 · Torture mandate (ICCPR Art. 7 / CAT)
Information received concerning the multiple forced evictions of Benet indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands at Mt. Elgon National Park in Uganda, as well as the torture and ill-treatment they are continuously subjected to. Alleged victims: 7 More details...
- Joint allegation letter — Uganda (2/2021)UN Special ProceduresallegationUganda · 2021-09-30 · Torture mandate (ICCPR Art. 7 / CAT)
Information received concerning the allegations of the persistent long-standing issue of forced evictions affecting more than 35,000 residents of the Kiryandongo district, Uganda, and the resulting impact on the affected populationâs access to adequate food. Reports of forced evictions began in 2017 and have persisted as three multinational companies â Agilis Partners Limited, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited â have allegedly acquired and converted national ranchland into plantations without obtaining consent from, or providing fair compensation to, residents who had occupied and cultivated the land for decades. Alleged victims: 3 More details...