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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 ...
Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...
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 ...
Ahead of second round of Romania’s presidential election, new investigation suggests TikTok is serving more far-right content to new, politically balanced users ...
Environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include climate frontline voices at COP30 ...
The jaguar's future looks increasingly uncertain as Big Agribusiness tears down its home in Brazil's tropical forests to make way for cattle ranching Jaguars are key for healthy ecosystems. Gerald ...
Trump’s obsession with rare earth minerals makes sense when you understand their role in modern military technology Critical minerals have in recent years been central to global visions of a greener ...
French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...
The lack of regulation of imported goods to the UK helped destroy an area of global forest equivalent in size to Cardiff, Liverpool or Newcastle over the last year, new Global Witness analysis shows ...
While Trump zeroes in on embattled Ukraine's critical mineral reserves, conflict and inequality clash with efforts for a just energy transition across the globe The extraction and trade of some ...
Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked to deforestation, despite a law introduced in 2021 to clean up supply chains and ban such trade. New analysis from Global Witness reveals ...
The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at Manila airport this morning after an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant is a critical step towards accountability for land and ...