Uganda: Eviction and labour exploitation on the coffee plantation threatens the right to food of peasants, Mubende District, Uganda

In August 2001, the government of Uganda brutally evicted 392 peasant families (approximately 2041 persons) from their land in Mubende. The land was then given to a German coffee company for the purpose of establishing a coffee plantation under its local subsidiary, Kaweri Coffee Plantation Ltd. While some of the evictees have found shelter on the neighbouring land and are conducting temporary small-scale farming, others were employed by the plantation as casual workers. Not only was land never returned to these evictees, the wages on the plantation are so low that the peasants are unable to feed themselves.  

FIAN has intervened twice in the past (0133uga/0215huga) on this case. As a result, discretionary police  beatings have stopped and the workload of the plantation workers has diminished. Nevertheless, neither land nor properties lost during the eviction have been returned to these peasant families till today. An international action is necessary to support the peasants suffering labour exploitation and whose right to adequate food has been severely violated. Please write a letter to President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni, requesting him to immediately undertake measures on this matter.