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Recent events in Israel and Iran show once again our economic vulnerabilities to oil price shocks and how inadvisable it is for the current Administration to pull back US investments in clean energy.
The money is there, it’s just in the wrong hands This isn’t a funding crisis. It’s a fairness crisis. For decades, fossil fuel companies have used their power to rig the system by lobbying against ...
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 mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...
Global Witness has released a new undercover investigation featuring voices from those on the ground fighting damaging nickel mining in Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago in West Papua. The multimedia ...
The reported legal liabilities from complaints faced by meat giant JBS have more than tripled from US $1.8 billion as of June 2023 to $6.9 billion at the end of 2024, new findings from Global Witness ...
Ahead of Wednesday’s spending review, the chancellor faces tough choices on public spending, including whether to maintain funding for flood defences beyond 2026. Her decision won’t just affect flood ...
More people than ever are suffering from the effects of climate breakdown, with deadly wildfires, heatwaves, storms and floods making large parts of the world uninhabitable. Yet rather than scale back ...
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Attacks on land and environmental defenders in the Caribbean have often been overshadowed by the dangers faced by defenders in mainland Latin America, but protecting their rights is just as crucial ...