While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...

Some of the world’s lowest-income and most aid-dependent nations paying millions to lobbyists with ties to US President ...

[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ...

Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...

A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up for renewal this June, is likely to make the EU ...

Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters against Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in financing provided ...

French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...

Greenwashing and bothsidesism in AI chatbot answers about fossil fuels' role in climate change ...

Le gouvernement de la RDC a pris des engagements ambitieux afin de parvenir à une gouvernance forestière durable, mais le chemin pour y parvenir est entravé par la corruption, l’impunité, et des ...

With news that TikTok may have been exploited to influence the Romanian presidential elections, we tested what election content its algorithm recommends People take part in the Romania Hopes rally, ...