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

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

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early one October morning, trustees of a San Diego pension fund gathered at their headquarters on the outskirts of town to hear a pitch for an investment with an unusually high rate of return: 20-25%.

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, ...

Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment Download the full report ...

Imagine that you’ve spent years studying glacial retreat in the Arctic. You believe you have a duty to share your findings that reveal how our world is changing with a wider public. But you remember ...