[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ...

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 ...

Red-tagging is a practice that connects online and real-world harms, where individuals or groups (often progressive political activists or land and environmental defenders) are labelled as communists, ...

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 ...

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

Climate action is a vote winner. Polls have shown that around the world, people have woken up to the threat which the climate crisis poses to their futures – and want their elected leaders to take ...

Violent and extreme hate targeting migrants and refugees in South Africa approved for publication by social media platforms. In the face of imminent danger, we’d do anything to protect ourselves and ...