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 ever survey today suggests.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include climate frontline voices at COP30 ...

Trump’s obsession with rare earth minerals makes sense when you understand their role in modern military technology Critical minerals have in recent years been central to global visions of a greener ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climate talks, according to a new ...