Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | Aug. 28, 2013 Land Forests Cambodia Dropped murder case demonstrates continued impunity over Cambodian forest destruction A provincial court in Cambodia has acquitted a military policeman and his wife who stood accused of the brutal murder of a journalist investigating the country’s illegal timber trade. Hang Serei Oudom’s mutilated body was found in the boot of his car in Ratanakiri Province on 11th September 2012. Captain An Bunheng and his wife were arrested in relation to the death but have been acquitted today due to insufficient evidence. | July 22, 2013 Forests D.R. Congo Claims that threat to Congo Basin forest is waning are misleading Claims that the deforestation threat to the Congo Basin is diminishing are seriously misleading, said Global Witness today. | June 6, 2013 Forests Liberia Reports emerge of wartime loggers’ return to Liberia as government inaction on illegal permits encourages exploitation of communities Click here to download this briefing | May 24, 2013 Forests Ghana Three quarters of Ghana’s logging permits could break Europe’s new timber law The majority of logging permits in use in Ghana will not fall within the legal definition the country has agreed with the European Union. | May 24, 2013 Forests Bill Oddie attending HSBC AGM to grill directors over role in Borneo rainforest destruction and corruption scandals as bank’s profits soar Naturalist and comedian Bill Oddie will today attend the HSBC annual general meeting to seek answers from the board of directors over the bank’s lending to companies destroying Borneo’s rainforests. The companies that HSBC has lent to have been at the forefront of a timber and palm oil bonanza that has left less than 5 per cent of the Malaysian state of Sarawak’s rainforests unaffected by logging or plantations. | May 21, 2013 Forests D.R. Congo Danzer dropped by FSC over “unacceptable activities “in Congo; victims still await justice Global Witness welcomes today's decision by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to dissociate itself from the Danzer Group, in light of accusations of human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | May 21, 2013 Forests Liberia Liberian government publishes landmark resource audit, but urgently needs to address findings Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today. The audit, which was published last week, reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the government now urgently needs to address. | May 15, 2013 Forests Peru Los intereses creados en torno a la carretera Purús de la Amazonía ponen en peligro a grupos no contactados y al medio ambiente con el pretexto del desarrollo económico Read this press release in English El proyecto de construcción de una carretera de 270 km de longitud atravesando la Amazonía peruana está plagado de incumplimientos de la ley y posibles conflictos de intereses, según ha declarado hoy Global Witness en su nuevo informe. | May 15, 2013 Forests Peru Vested interests pushing Amazonian highway bill, putting uncontacted groups and the environment at risk under the guise of development Leer este comunicado en Español | May 13, 2013 Forests Cameroon Ghana Liberia D.R. Congo 非洲伐木许可发放混乱恐致非法木材流入欧洲 English version 全球见证组织新近发布的报告显示,在非经营企业、当地林业主管官员和政客正在利用小型伐木许可发放上的监管漏洞为非法木材进入欧盟大开方便之门,阻碍非洲保护森林的进程。 这份名为《影中伐木》的报告揭示了在喀麦隆、刚果民主共和国、加纳和利比里亚等国家,伐木企业秘密地利用原本旨在推动小企业发展和满足当地人口对木材需求的伐木许可,进行大规模伐木作业的真相。这些“影子许可证”让大型伐木企业得以避开当地有关部门的监管,从大规模伐木作业中牟取暴利。 Show Previous 10 Show Next 10