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Report

8 Mar 2018

Author:
National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Womankind & National Association for Women’s Action in Development (Uganda)

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"Digging deep: The impact of land rush on women's rights"

...[The report makes the following recommendations} for to corporate actors investing and operating in Uganda. 

• Free, prior and informed consent should be required from both women and men before any land acquisition, including purchase and lease, takes place;

• Corporate actors should formalise their commitment to human rights as mandated by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights through operational policies and practices with mechanisms for reporting, investigating and prosecuting all forms of violence against women and girls;

• All of those displaced through evictions should be resettled with access to appropriate livelihood options in accordance with their new location and environment and be fully financially compensated using a fair, transparent and documented process of calculating compensation rates;

• Women must directly receive an equal share of the compensation available and the details must be recorded.