News

Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...
Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters without Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing for it A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up ...
Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters without Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing for it A 2022 gas deal between Israel, Egypt and the EU could make the EU ...
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 ...
Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...
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 ...
They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...
The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...
Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in financing provided ...
Forests in Sarawak, Malaysia have nearly been wiped out by one ruling family. Find out more about our undercover investigation into the country's timber trade.