WateteziEnvironmental Defenders (ED) was established in 2017 amidst severe threats to the environment and restrictions on the work of Land and Environmental Defenders in Uganda, specifically in the Albertine region, West Nile and Northern Uganda, concerned for the protection of the environment and wellbeing of Indigenous and rural communities who are vulnerable to poorly conceived and executed resource development projects.
These communities have to resist attempts to silence them and interfere in their actions by legislation, military and police brutality, legal prosecution, forced evictions, land grabbing, extra-judicial surveillance, sexual violence, and intimidation.
