Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...

For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...

Global Witness was the first organisation to bring this issue to the world’s attention. Our ground-breaking report, A Rough Trade, released in 1998, exposed the role of diamonds in funding the civil ...

Leaching Myanmar's mountains For Zau*, a local worker, the mining boom is a rare chance to make money. He is paid 3,800 yuan ($600) in cash every month, around twice the average salary in Myanmar. He ...

Half of climate scientists surveyed with more than 10 publications have faced online abuse The survey found that level of exposure to harassment was linked to amount of academic publications and ...

Challenge the power of destructive companies profiting from climate breakdown and put the future of the planet back in the hands of people and communities.

Defenders and Indigenous Peoples are often our planet’s last line of defence, sounding the alarm about threats to vital ecosystems and incursions upon their communities from destructive companies. In ...

In 2022, a Global Witness investigation revealed a shocking reality at the heart of the green energy transition. Unregulated mines in Myanmar had become an essential source of heavy rare earth ...

The global minerals trade has funded abuses and armed conflict for decades. We were one of the first organisations to reveal how minerals that bankrolled social and environmental harms ended up in our ...

In 2018, 30 land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines, making it the country with the highest number of such killings in the world. As our new investigation shows, despite his ...

Brazil’s three largest meat companies have been linked to the destruction of an area of forest in Mato Grosso state bigger than Chicago, with the forest lost in the state’s Cerrado savannah nearly ...