Hundreds of land and environmental defenders are threatened, arrested and killed every year for their part in resisting environmental devastation. We record every name and honour their activism.

Too many of the world’s biggest and most powerful corporations are profiting from practices that are destroying our planet. Companies have captured governments around the world through campaign ...

The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at Manila airport this morning after an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant is a critical step towards accountability for land and ...

Fossil fuel companies have our future in a chokehold. They’ve captured our politicians’ ears, infiltrated climate summits and fuelled and funded war. All this while preserving their industry’s ...

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 ...

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Durante años, las personas defensoras de la tierra y el medio ambiente han estado en la primera línea de defensa en contra de las causas e impactos del colapso climático. La crisis climática es ...

In order to stop this violence from happening in future, we first need to understand it – where it is occurring, which industries are responsible, and how it has changed over time. Visit our Annual ...

Mike became Global Witness CEO in 2020. Under his leadership, the organisation is pursuing a new direction: shifting the balance of power from big polluters profiting most from climate breakdown to ...

Non-partisan social media users in Germany are seeing right-leaning content more than twice as much than left-leaning content in the lead up to the country’s federal elections, a new Global Witness ...

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We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back.