Environmental human rights defenders and civic space - Environmental Defenders

Environmental human rights defenders and civic space

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

Banner image: UCC Executive Director addressing the media during a

KILIMO Awards 2025. Community Leadership for Climate, Forests, and Justice in the Albertine Rift and Congo Basin

On December 11, 2025, Environmental Defenders, in partnership with Terra

Freed Bukavu journalist highlights growing dangers for the press in eastern DRC

Environmental Defenders (ED) welcomes the release of journalist Honneur-David Safari,

Environmental Defenders condemns killing of journalist Thierry Banga Lole and warns of rising threats to journalists in eastern DRC

Environmental Defenders (ED) strongly condemns the assassination of journalist Thierry

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

Janepher Baitwamasa

Voices of defenders – Janepher Baitwamasa

Voices of defenders – Precious Naturinda

Voices of defenders – Susan Atulinda

Voices of defenders – Jolly Bategeka