Responding to alleged plans by new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to approve more North Sea oil and gas drilling, Senior Global Witness campaigner, Flossie Boyd said: "As firefighters battle wildfires ...

Selma dos Santos Dealdina Mbaye is a Quilombola activist and Political Coordinator at the Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ), an organisation ...

Most mining for critical minerals needed for the energy transition is controlled by countries with advanced economies and major consumer countries. But it is mostly less-wealthy countries that are ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin’s importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment Download the full report ...

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 ...

This report, and our campaign, is dedicated to all those individuals, communities and organisations that are bravely taking a stand to defend human rights, their land and our environment. Last year, ...

China has long dominated the world's supply of heavy rare earths, minerals needed to build electric vehicles and wind turbines. Demand for these products is skyrocketing as we rush to meet climate ...

Until now the jade sector’s worth has been almost impossible to determine. But on the basis of new research and analysis, Global Witness estimates the value of jade production to have been as much as ...

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 ...

Nestled between Brazil and Argentina in the heart of South America, Paraguay is the world’s fourth largest exporter of soy. But the social and environmental impacts of its soy industry have received ...