UN Climate Change have announced new disclosure requirements for people attending COP, in a big win for accountability and ...

Global Witness documented 117 defender killings last year (82%) in Latin America, with 48 in Colombia, which had the most ...

New Global Witness report identifies patterns in laws increasingly being used across Asia to shut down peaceful activism and ...

In Asia, criminalisation and detention of defenders is increasingly common. Here, we analyse how governments weaponise laws ...

Global Witness welcomes the US sanctions against the armed group PARECO-FF and three companies – the Cooperative des Artisanaux Miniers du Congo (CDMC), East Rise Corporation Limited (East Rise) and ...

The Brazilian Presidency’s flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – must be supported by sponsor governments also introducing stronger rules ...

I could tell you that, around the world, three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land, their environment, from extractive forces. I could tell you that this has been going on ...

An aerial view of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire on 27 January 2025 in California. The fire was one of several that swept through LA, leaving at least 28 dead and forcing over 180,000 people to ...