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 | March 8, 2006 Forests Myanmar China must act on pledge to end illegal Burmese timber imports (Chinese version) | March 8, 2006 Forests Myanmar China must act on pledge to end illegal Burmese timber imports Press release For Immediate Release, 8 March 2006 China must act on pledge to end illegal Burmese timber imports The Chinese government has finally pledged to act to address the rampant trade in illegal timber from Burma, after a recent exposé by Global Witness.[1] China is the primary destination of Burmese timber and holds the key to a trade that threatens to destroy its neighbour’s forests. | March 8, 2006 Forests Myanmar China must act on pledge to end illegal Burmese timber imports (Burmese version) | Oct. 18, 2005 Forests Myanmar Burma's Missing Timber Millions: Destination China (Burmese version) owif;xkwfjyefcsuf/ ukefoG,frIydwfyif - 2005ckESpf? atmufwdkbm (18)&uf jrefrmhopf oef;csDqHk;&HI;? w&kwfwGifvrf;qHk; wurÇmvHk;qdkif&moufaoouúm,tzGJYBuD;1ubefaumufNrdKYEdkifiHjcm;owif;axmufrsm;toif;2 ü,aeYxkwfjyefvdkufon fh]w&kwftwGufa&G;p&m/ jrefrmjynfajrmufzsm;opfawmrsm;zsufqD;rItqHk; | Oct. 10, 2005 Forests Another Review, another Condemnation of the Logging Concessionaires. Are the Cambodian Government and the World Bank Listening? An external review of Cambodian forest concessionaires endorsed by a World Bank project has concluded that none should be allowed to proceed with their plans for further industrial logging. | July 29, 2005 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia Global Witness welcomes the report of the Forest Concession Review Committee and urges the Liberian government to sign and implement its recommendations Global Witness (1) welcomes the findings and recommendations of a report by the Forest Concession Review Committee (FCRC) on Liberia’s forest industry. The report, published in early July 2005, documents extensive corruption and abuse in the industry and makes a series of strong recommendations. One of its main recommendations is that the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) cancels all existing forest concessions as “no individual concession holder was able to demonstrate sufficient level of legal compliance”(2). | July 28, 2005 Forests Global Witness launches Guide to Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) Global Witness today launches 'A Guide to Independent Forest Monitoring', the definitive guide to IFM for governments, donors, and NGOs, based on its pioneering work in Cambodia and Cameroon. | June 16, 2005 Forests Global Witness' new report on slow progress in Cameroon’s efforts to stop illegal logging In its latest progress report (1) on Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) in Cameroon Global Witness (2) concludes that Forest Law Enforcement in Cameroon is improving, and Independent Forest Monitoring (3) has had a significant impact on the reduction of large scale illegal logging in the forestry sector. But progress in enforcing compliance with the law and penalising perpetrators by the Cameroonian authorities remains disappointingly slow (4). | June 15, 2005 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia Liberia: Uncontrolled Liberian resource exploitation and manipulation by Charles Taylor continue to threaten peace in West Africa A report released on 15 June 2005 by Global Witness (1) titled 'Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy' details how uncontrolled exploitation of Liberia’s natural resources, structural violence and interference by former Liberian president Charles Taylor are undermining peace in West Africa. | June 6, 2005 Responsible Minerals Forests Liberia Liberia: Will Bush and Blair finally take action against indicted war criminal and former US military intelligence asset Charles Taylor? The UK, the US and Nigeria are stalling efforts to extradite indicted war criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Nigeria to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him with a range of 17 war crimes and crimes against humanity (1). Show Previous 10 Show Next 10