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 Statement | Dec. 11, 2020 Joint Statement: in solidarity with Timnit Gebru Along with the Google Walkout organisers, our organisations call on Google to strengthen its commitment to integrity, anti-racism, and adherence to the company’s own AI Principles in its research Press release | Dec. 10, 2020 Commodity traders ADM and Bunge linked to conflict-tainted palm oil in Indonesia Global Witness investigation exposes how two US agribusiness giants – ADM and Bunge – source from Indonesian palm oil mills linked publicly to human rights abuses and land grabs. Press release | Dec. 7, 2020 New EU sanctions regime is an important achievement but leaves the door open to dirty money Global Witness and 14 other organisations welcome adoption of a new sanctions regime by the European Union to target human rights abusers worldwide. However, we urge the EU to adopt a complementary sanctions regime targeting corrupt actors. Press release | Dec. 3, 2020 Global Witness statement on the European Democracy Action Plan Today’s EU Action Plan takes an important first step towards safeguarding European democracy, promising legislation to protect citizens from the very real harms created by the micro-targeting of political ads Press release | Dec. 2, 2020 Major global banks complicit in widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest linked to Brazilian beef companies, and international audits flawed Major Brazilian meat traders are failing to remove huge swathes of Amazon deforestation from their supply chains, which flawed audits by DNV-GL and Grant Thornton then did not pick up Press release | Dec. 2, 2020 New UN report calling for fossil fuel reduction must not be ignored by EU UN report calls for 6% reduction in fossil fuels per year Press release | Nov. 30, 2020 5.3bn political ads were shown on Facebook in the week before the US election The fanfare around the company’s ban on new political ads did not prevent over $100 million dollars being spent on political ads that recycled old content or were re-targeted to new people. Facebook’s ban on new political ads ahead of the US elections was touted as a way for the platform to protect US democracy. New analysis published by Global Witness today shows that the policy was little more than a token effort. Press release | Nov. 25, 2020 Industry Push on Global Gold Centers Can Reduce Conflict Gold Trade The gold industry’s new initiative to push gold bullion centers from Dubai to Switzerland to reform and fully implement consistent and credible responsible sourcing standards can have a strong positive impact on the deadly conflict gold trade, Global Witness, IMPACT, and The Sentry said today. Press release | Nov. 19, 2020 EU Ombudsman decision exposes Commission weakness on climate-wrecking fossil gas The European Ombudsman has today ruled that the European Commission failed to assess the climate risks when supporting fossil gas projects Statement | Nov. 13, 2020 Global Witness statement following Myanmar elections The NLD must use its renewed mandate from this election win as an opportunity to tackle the financial drivers of conflict, clean up the corrupt jade trade and place natural resource governance at the heart of the peace process. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10