Europe and the UK already have a blueprint for supporting Venezuela's people – stop importing its oil while it is controlled ...

We're looking for a Consortium Manager to support Global Witness implement a Norwegian-government-funded consortium grant ...

Global Witness is calling for businesses and governments to better consider the human cost of rare earth minerals.

The US first framed its illegal Venezuela attack as an operation to oust authoritarian Maduro as part of its war on drugs. But it didn’t take long for Trump to reveal a far more lucrative motive: ...

How nickel is mined In Surigao del Sur, nickel is extracted using open-pit strip methods, a process that involves denuding the mountain and stripping away the topsoil and rock. Heavy machinery scoops ...

The EU and US-backed Lobito Corridor railway for critical mineral transport risks driving evictions in a mining region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and leaving vulnerable people open to ...

COP30 marks a decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, when the 1.5°C global heating limit was first agreed. In the 10 years since that watershed summit, a struggle over the spirit of COP ...

As COP30 looms, a new fund aims to channel climate finance into global markets to turn a profit. Global Witness A $125 billion fund will use profits from global markets to invest in forest protection.

If it succeeds, the TFFF could channel up to USD$4 billion a year to tropical forest nations The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is Brazil’s flagship nature and finance initiative for COP30.

A mine worker walks near the leaching pools near Pangwa (the Kachin Special Region 1), in Northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border in early 2024. Supplied by a Global Witness partner To reverse 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 ...