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Pakwach

Environmental Defenders community ranger on patrol along the Murchison Falls wildlife corridor in northern Uganda

Keeping Uganda’s Murchison Falls Corridor Alive Through Rangers

On World Ranger Day 2026, Environmental Defenders profiles the community

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Uganda builds oil production future on foundation of broken families and injustice

PAPs interviewed for this story describe arbitrary and coercive methods

Pacuwegi Oneranda (Aceronga), a 2023 Kilimo Award recipient and women's rights defender from Wagungu Chiefdom on Lake Albert, DRC, advocating for fishing and farming communities.

On the Frontline and Under Fire: The Women Defending Our Forests, Rivers, and Rights

This International Women’s Day, Environmental Defenders honors the women across

A Corridor in Collapse: Elephants, Oil and the Fading Wildlife Highway of Northern Uganda

An ancient migration route linking Murchison Falls to South Sudan

Uganda’s Suspension of Human Rights NGOs Is Part of a Long Pattern of Shrinking Civic Space and Targeting of Environmental and Land Rights Defenders

Banner Image, May 20, 2013: Employees of the Daily Monitor

Uganda’s Internet Shutdown Exposes How Digital Repression Undermines Democracy, Climate Justice, and the Defense of Land and Human Rights

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Along the shores of the Itaka Lya Mwitanzige. A journey that connects women and rights in the northern Albertine Rift, UgandaA

From Bugoma Forest to Bugoma Forest; a closed circuit along

Vicky Gotrau and Apoli Lenju

Vicky Gotrau and Vicky Gotrau

Lam The Kwaru Faith Group

Lam The Kwaru Faith Group

Ker Kal Kwonga Panyimur