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 | July 13, 2006 Forests Cambodia Has the World Bank Learned Lessons from Forestry Fiasco in Cambodia? Global Witness today welcomed the commitment of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to improve forest management in Cambodia, but questioned whether the Bank management has fully learned lessons from its failed Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project. | June 22, 2006 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia United Nations Security Council lifts Liberia timber sanctions despite insufficient reform of the industry The United Nations Security Council has voted not to renew sanctions on the Liberian timber industry despite insufficient progress by the Government of Liberia in meeting the criteria set out in Resolution 1521 (2003). | June 15, 2006 Forests Cambodia Background briefing on the Inspection Panel Investigation in Cambodia The Logging Concession System in Cambodia | June 15, 2006 Forests Cambodia World Bank Inspection Panel finds Slam Bank Forestry Project in Cambodia A leaked World Bank Inspection Panel[1] report heavily criticises the Bank’s own forest management project in Cambodia for breaking internal safeguards, ignoring local communities and failing to reduce poverty, said international non-governmental organisation Global Witness today. | June 1, 2006 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia Liberian diamonds, timber and rubber still exploited by ex-combatants United Nations sanctions on Liberian diamonds and timber should not be lifted until the government has gained full control over these resources, Global Witness said in a new report released today. “Under the leadership of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the new Liberian government has made significant progress towards reforming the natural resources sector and tackling corruption”, said Natalie Ashworth, Global Witness Campaigner. “However, much more needs to be done before Liberia can be said to have met the criteria for lifting sanctions.” | May 30, 2006 Forests Myanmar China Blocks Timber Imports From Burma (Chinese version) Download options: Word Document PDF | May 30, 2006 Forests Myanmar China Blocks Timber Imports From Burma (Burmese version) Download the Burmese version here. | May 30, 2006 Forests Myanmar China Blocks Timber Imports From Burma China has clamped down on illegal logging in northern Burma by closing its border to the timber trade and ordering Chinese workers to leave the country.[1], [2] This unprecedented move follows a decade of rapacious logging by Chinese logging companies in Burma’s northern forests.[3] In 2005, China imported more than 1.5 million cubic metres of Burmese timber worth an estimated US$350 million. Almost all of these imports were illegal.[4] | April 26, 2006 Forests Honduras Power and illegal logging: illegal exploitation of Honduran forests Download in English/Spanish Download English Version (PDF) Download Spanish Version(PDF) | March 29, 2006 Forests Honduras New Independent Forest Monitoring reports document illegal activities in Honduran forests Download in English/Spanish Download English Version (PDF) Download Spanish Version(PDF) Show Previous 10 Show Next 10