Past campaigns

The illicit trade in diamonds has funded wars and human rights abuses for decades. Global Witness was the first organisation to bring this issue to the world’s attention.

The global minerals trade has funded abuses and armed conflict for decades. Minerals that have bankrolled social and environmental harms still end up in our mobile phones, laptops and cars.

Too many of the world’s biggest and most powerful corporations are profiting from practices that are destroying our planet. We wanted to shift to uncover the role corporations and financial institutions undermining efforts to stop climate breakdown, and for mandatory corporate due diligence be introduced across all sectors

Corruption and fraud in the oil, gas and mining industries props up brutal regimes and lines the pockets of kleptocrats. Companies and governments must end the secrecy and bring deals and profits into the open

Anonymous shell companies are getaway cars for the world’s criminal and corrupt. We have been campaigning to take away the keys, by pushing governments to change laws and bring the people who own and control companies - the so-called ‘beneficial’ owners - out into the open.

Ill-gotten gains don’t disappear by themselves. Dictators, warlords and other criminals need ways to hide their identity and move dirty cash around the world.

Commercial pressure to produce agricultural commodities like palm oil and rubber has been cranking up demand for land. Our work has exposed the secret deals struck between governments and investors, robbing communities of land that’s rightfully theirs.