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 | May 11, 2013 Land Forests Laos Cambodia International Finance Corporation and Deutsche Bank bankrolling Vietnamese land grabs in Cambodia and Laos Click here to read the report and watch the film The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness. | May 9, 2013 Oil, Gas & Mining Forests D.R. Congo La loi sur les hydrocarbures devant le parlement de la RD Congo n’est pas en mesure d’arrêter la corruption ou les dommages environnementaux – Global Witness Read in English | May 9, 2013 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Forests D.R. Congo Oil law before Congo parliament fails to safeguard against corruption or environmental damage – Global Witness Lire en français | May 3, 2013 Forests Liberia Liberia systematically breaking its own laws in oil, mineral, forest and land deals worth billions of dollars, new audit reveals. Global Witness welcomes a new audit recommending that the Liberian government take immediate action to address systematic gaps in compliance with laws on how its natural resources are allocated. The report, commissioned by LEITI, Liberia’s groundbreaking transparency initiative, revealed that laws had been broken in virtually every natural resource deal since 2009. | April 29, 2013 Forests Goldman Sachs underwrites US$1.6 billion of ‘under the radar’ bonds for corrupt Sarawak regime, and wins business award for it US investment bank Goldman Sachs appears to have turned a blind eye to glaring corruption risks and conflicts of interest in order to underwrite US$1.6 billion in bonds for the Sarawak State Government, Malaysia, said Global Witness today (1). The bank’s approach in Sarawak helped it win ‘Bank of the Year 2012’ by International Financing Review Asia for “breaking with tradition to win new business in difficult conditions” (2). | April 29, 2013 Forests Cameroon Cambodia La crise des permis forestiers africains risque de conduire l’UE à blanchir des importations de bois illégaux Click here to read this press release in English L’abus systématique de petits permis d’exploitation forestière mal régulés par des compagnies, des officiels et des politiciens sape les efforts de l’Union Européenne pour lutter contre la déforestation et le bois illégal, dit un nouveau rapport de Global Witness. | April 29, 2013 Forests Cameroon Ghana Liberia D.R. Congo Africa’s logging permit crisis puts EU at risk of laundering illegal timber imports Click here to download this report Cliquez ici pour lire ce communiqué de presse en français 简体中文 | April 25, 2013 Land Forests Cambodia Cambodia marks 1 year anniversary of Chut Wutty’s murder Global Witness joins Cambodian activists and citizens in commemorating the death of Chut Wutty, the Director of environmental watchdog Natural Resource Protection Group (NRPG), who was murdered a year ago today by military police while investigating illegal logging and land seizures. | April 24, 2013 Forests D.R. Congo Criminal complaint accuses senior manager of Danzer Group of responsibility over human rights abuses against Congolese community A criminal complaint filed today by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Global Witness accuses a senior manager of Swiss and German timber manufacturer the Danzer Group of aiding and abetting, through omission, grave human rights violations against members of a forest community in the Democratic Republic in Congo (DRC). | March 15, 2013 Land Forests Corruption in Malaysia laid bare as investigation catches Sarawak’s ruling elite on camera 简体中文 Show Previous 10 Show Next 10