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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia Cattle in Pará State of Brazil. 60% of tropical ...

Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...

With Brazil’s president branding COP30 the "turnaround COP", environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and other experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include ...

The entrance to the Veolia San Silvestre Environmental Technology Park. Leonardo Granados / Global Witness Global Witness obtained a series of videos secretly filmed within the Veolia-managed site ...

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 ...

UK imports in 2024 linked to forest destruction the size of a major city, despite government pledges to tackle the global nature emergency Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked ...