Climate change played a role in the devastating floods, yet the fossil fuel industry continues to receive billions in ...

Meat giant JBS’s US stock market debut exposes the deep flaws in the global financial system and raises urgent questions for ...

Our AI-based solution In recent months, we have started using an AI-based tool to classify records at scale. This approach has helped us test hypotheses more quickly and speeded up classification. We ...

We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...

Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...

While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...

Our findings suggest that a climate of fear in both Uganda and Tanzania is stopping civil society and communities from challenging the pipeline. TotalEnergies‘ representatives, contractors and ...

For 30 years, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud ruled Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state. Today less than 5 per cent of the state’s once vast rainforests have been spared from logging or conversion to ...

Duterte’s broken promises are leaving activists at the mercy of business at all costs in the Philippines, the country with the most killings of land and environmental defenders in 2018.

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...

French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...