This is a report covering Greenwatch implementation activities for the period (January 2023 to December 2023). Our activities and projects included among others; the Fifth Judicial Training on Climate Justice, the Launch of our report on the assessment of laws on plastics in Uganda, Public Interest Environment Litigation, and networking and civil society coalition engagements.
2023 commenced on an extremely sad note when we lost our founder Hon. Justice Kenneth Kakuru, who passed away on 7th March 2023 after battling with cancer for close to two years. Justice Kakuru founded Greenwatch in 1995 and was a focal person for our success specifically in the field of public interest environmental litigation. Justice Kakuru was a candid environmental rights defender and his footprints will continue to guide Greenwatch in realising our vision.
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We believe that environmental rights can be better exercised when people have access to information, can participate in decisions that affect their surroundings and have access to justice incase their rights are violated. Greenwatch exists to ensure that every individual in Uganda knows that they have environmental rights and these rights can be fully exercised through access to information, justice and public participation.
