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Of fossil fuel-linked donors, US oil giant Chevron made the largest contribution – $2 million – and was the joint ...
Global Witness and Both ENDS strongly condemn the reported of harassment and surveillance by the Armed Forces of the ...
As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...
For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...
These land and environmental defenders – many of whom are Indigenous Peoples, Afrodescendant, farmers, community leaders, journalists, lawyers and Indigenous Peoples – are targeted for daring to ...
The mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...
Global Witness recorded that 200 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2021 – nearly four people a week. These lethal attacks continue to take place in the context of a wider range of ...
This report, and our campaign, is dedicated to all those individuals, communities and organisations that are bravely taking a stand to defend human rights, their land and our environment. Last year, ...
The UK introduced the world’s first fully open register of the real owners of its companies in 2016, leading the world in the fight against corruption. While the register has the potential to make it ...
What have we learnt since Global Witness started reporting on the killings of land and environmental defenders ten years ago? At the international level there has been some progress made by ...