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Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, & human rights abuses worldwide. Read the latest comment & updates from the Global Witness team on world issues including human rights & environmental abuses, the climate crisis, and natural resource corruption.
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6d ago
The sixth UN Environment Assembly was an opportunity to demand more from the mining industry, but a watered down resolution means little was achieved. More must be done to ensure a just energy transition ..read more
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1M ago
Whether activists, educators, farmers or caregivers, women play a vital role in protecting the environment. This International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate the women who have inspired our work in climate action ..read more
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1M ago
A review of how EU-based banks are pouring billions into deforestation ..read more
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1M ago
As we head into our fourth decade of exposing, investigating and ending abuses of power, we want to take a moment to look back at our past 30 years of investigations ..read more
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1M ago
Eight years after the murder of Indigenous campaigner Berta Cáceres, Honduras remains one of the world's most dangerous places for defenders. Despite pledges from the country's president, urgent action is still needed ..read more
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2M ago
The EU has shared ambitious climate targets for 2040. But question marks remain over how it will sustainably and responsibly source the minerals that will fuel a clean energy transition ..read more
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2M ago
The Cerrado faces significant pressures from human activities. Driven by global demand for agricultural products like soybeans and beef, land conversion for large-scale agriculture and cattle ranching is posing a major threat ..read more
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2M ago
We're supporting the West African Frontline Grassroot Defenders’ Directory. It's goal is simple, yet powerful: for the first time, it will allow defenders in West Africa to document the attacks they face ..read more
Global Witness Blog
4M ago
For more than a decade, we've been documenting and celebrating the hard-fought wins of land and environmental defenders worldwide. Together, their efforts not only help to prevent environmental destruction and human rights harms by companies, but also help to protect the environment from the worst effects of climate change ..read more
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4M ago
The 28th UN climate summit leaves us, for the first time, with an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. Yet the failure to agree a phase-out ignores the science and sends a signal to polluters that governments may tolerate fossil fuels forever ..read more