They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...

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 ...

Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...

We polled almost 500 global climate scientists on their experiences of online harassment. The findings reveal personal and collective harms from online hate, and signal ways to make social media ...

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 ...

Generative AI tools are increasingly part of the way we search for information – from search engines providing “AI overviews” to powering chatbots in instant messenger services. As many people have ...

In an age of the ‘manosphere’ where women are under constant threat from misogynistic attacks online, our investigation shows test adverts containing extreme hate against women are approved for ...

Facebook has admitted that it played a role in inciting violence during the genocidal campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar (Burma). Since 2017, nearly 900,000 people have been ...

Hydrogen could be an important part of the renewable energy transition, but not if the fossil fuel industry has its way What is blue hydrogen and why does it matter? At first glance, hydrogen seems to ...

Barclays, Vanguard, and BlackRock made millions financing JBS, a Brazilian meatpacker whose operations are driving destruction of Apyterewa Indigenous land ...

A new investigation today reveals how Afghanistan’s 6,500 year old lapis mines are driving corruption, conflict and extremism in the country. Global Witness has found that the Taliban and other armed ...

New Global Witness complaint submitted to the US financial regulator accuses Shell of lumping together some of its gas-related investments with its spending on renewables to inflate its overall ...