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

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

Global Witness and Both ENDS strongly condemn the reported of harassment and surveillance by the Armed Forces of the ...

Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters without Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing for it A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up ...

[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests. Global Witness commissioned the first global ...

We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...

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 ...

The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...

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 ...

Until now the jade sector’s worth has been almost impossible to determine. But on the basis of new research and analysis, Global Witness estimates the value of jade production to have been as much as ...

Aerial view of a logging road in Sodefor concession in the peatland forest near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace Our two-year investigation reveals that European ...

Global Witness uncovers evidence indicating controversial mining magnate Dan Gertler used an international money laundering network to attempt to evade US sanctions and continue doing business in DRC.