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 ...

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

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, ...

Pakistan, Somalia and Haiti among 11 nations to sign deals with Trump-linked figures, many trading resources like minerals for aid or military support ...

Global Witness and Both ENDS strongly condemn the reported of harassment and surveillance by the Armed Forces of the Philippines of environmental activists and fisherfolk communities in Navotas, ...

Petrobras is projected to produce 1/3 more oil in 2030 than in 2024 Oil production expanding faster than nearly any other major company State firm set to spend $230 billion on new oil and gas by 2050 ...

Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand in the way of progress at COP30 Imagine earning the responsibility of ...

The Sofia Iztok thermal power plant, powered by fossil gas. (c) Damian Vodenitcharov. Damian Vodenitcharov The EU’s imports of US liquefied gas are creating emissions that could cause more than €100 ...

The renewable energy boom has triggered a new rush for resources, as countries race to secure their supply of transition minerals. But this push for clean technology could quickly turn dirty, unless ...

Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their homes, land and the environment Social activist Rinchin has been a key ...

The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition Ading Releno is a member of the ...