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 Press release | March 23, 2021 Global Witness and 148 other organisations call on Chevron to ensure oil and gas projects in Myanmar are not financing military Today Global Witness joined 148 other organizations in Myanmar and internationally in calling for US oil and gas giant Chevron to ensure that money from its projects in Myanmar does not help finance the murderous military regime that took power in a coup d’état on 1 February Statement | March 23, 2021 Open letter: Chevron's business operations in Myanmar We, the undersigned organizations and concerned individuals, call on Chevron and its partners to ensure that payments of royalties and other revenues are not made to Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise until the legitimate and democratically elected government is returned Press release | March 22, 2021 EU sanctions on individuals responsible for Myanmar’s military coup must go further and target the junta’s economic interests Today’s announcement of European Union sanctions on 11 members of Myanmar’s military junta are a disappointingly weak and belated response to the February 1 coup Press release | March 17, 2021 Acquittal of Shell and Eni in corruption trial “a stain on Italy” Joint statement on the Shell/ Eni verdict from Global Witness, Corner House, HEDA & Re:Common Statement | March 17, 2021 Shell and Eni verdict: Not the final word on this scandal NGOs and activists are today disappointed and outraged as Shell and Eni - two of the worlds biggest polluters - were found not guilty of corruption relating to the purchase of a Nigerian oilfield, in a Milan trial. Press release | March 16, 2021 Accountability groups file first of its kind FTC complaint against Chevron for misleading consumers on climate action The complaint claims that Chevron is consistently misrepresenting its image to appear climate-friendly and racial justice-oriented, while its business operations overwhelmingly rely on climate-polluting fossil fuels, which disproportionately harm communities of color. Press release | March 15, 2021 Energy firm on trial for vast corruption granted high level EU access to lobby for fossil gas Global Witness finds that Eni's CEO was granted access to EU Ministers whilst corruption trial ongoing Statement | March 12, 2021 Global Witness appoints Juana Kweitel as the Chair of its Board Ms Kweitel, who has been on the organisation’s Board since 2016, brings with her a wealth of experience on achieving change across the Global South, deploying her legal and campaigning skills to protect people and the planet Press release | March 9, 2021 Global Witness welcomes the reversal of US sanctions reprieve granted to mining magnate Dan Gertler Global Witness welcomes the positive step taken by the Biden administration to revoke the special licence granted to Dan Gertler in the waning days of the Trump presidency, which allowed him to resume business activities with US entities for a year and unfroze his assets in the US Statement | March 9, 2021 Open letter to LBMA on concerns that Responsible Sourcing Programme fails to curtail human rights abuse and illicit gold in the supply chain Global Witness, SWISSAID and RAID all highlighted gaps in LBMA’s Responsible Sourcing Programme and we have identified eleven key issues that LBMA needs urgently to address. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10