As the UNGPs turned 10 in June 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights […] took stock of the first decade of implementation… This document – the UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the next decade – follows the stocktaking, complementing the assessment of the first decade with forward-looking recommendations for the next one. … Read more
Civil society organizations respond to ANZ Bank’s new Grievance Mechanism Framework to evaluate and respond to human rights related complaints associated with its corporate lending customers.
Road constructors who recently worked on infrastructure projects in Soroti, Kumi and Pallisa districts have been accused of impregnating at least 1,000 teenage girls in Kamuda sub-county, Soroti. The ministry of Internal Affairs deputy coordinator in trafficking in persons department said Monday that there has been improvement in the state of the roads in the … Read more
Investors in hospitality business in Kalangala District are in the spotlight over encroaching on Lutoboka Central Forest Reserve before Parliament approves its degazettement, Daily Monitor has established. Lutoboka Forest Reserve measures 174 hectares (427.4 acres) and is located in Kalangala Town Council on Buggala Island. A trip by Daily Monitor to the forest reserve on … Read more
More than 200 encroachers on Maruzi ranch, Apac district are now homeless after their houses were torched by the army over the weekend. The affected people have been residents of Corner Mulema trading center in the heart of Maruzi ranch. They claim that soldiers deployed to guard the ranch stormed the area on Sunday and … Read more
According to Section 36 (1) of the National Environment Act 1995 of Uganda, a general penalty for illegal wetland use is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 18 months or a fine of not less than Shs180,000 and not more than Shs18 million.
France’s Total has suspended contracts with at least two companies building infrastructure to support a multi-billion-dollar gas project in Mozambique which has been left abandoned after a jihadist attack, the southern African country’s main business association said Tuesday. Total shut its operations in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in early April, withdrawing all staff days … Read more
