[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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...

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 ...

Facebook users in the UK may be excluded from viewing job ads based on protected characteristics, such as gender and age. Does Facebook think job candidates #DeserveToBeFound?

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 ...

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