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 | Feb. 6, 2020 UK taxpayer funded organisation spent $750 million financing climate change New report shows UK once again funding fossil fuels abroad Press release | Feb. 5, 2020 Environmental Activists Second Mexican defender of Monarch butterflies found dead Days after the funeral of prominent Mexican butterfly conservationist Homero Gómez González, the body of a second environmental defender is found at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state, Central Mexico. Press release | Jan. 27, 2020 Oil, Gas & Mining Congo-Brazzaville Republic of Congo’s oil-backed debt could balloon beyond IMF estimates, Global Witness reveals Republic of Congo’s public debt could exceed $12.5 billion, adding over a third to estimates released by the IMF in July 2019 when it awarded the country its fourth multi-million dollar bailout, Global Witness reveals today. Press release | Jan. 21, 2020 Climate breakdown Activist leaders call on World Economic Forum delegates to declare climate emergency We believe it’s time for decision-makers joining the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to declare a Climate Emergency Press release | Jan. 20, 2020 Anonymous Companies Luanda Leaks expose role of financial secrecy and western professionals in moving tainted money New revelations about how Isobel dos Santos amassed her fortune, allegedly at the expense of the Angolan state, once again reveal a global system of financial secrecy complicit in her schemes Press release | Jan. 20, 2020 Climate breakdown UK Government climate commitment on coal overseas is hollow Global Witness reacts to UK coal investment announcement Press release | Dec. 19, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Proposed US oil anti-corruption rule would fail to deter corruption New US oil and gas payment transparency rule would fail to deter corruption. Press release | Dec. 19, 2019 Corruption & Money Laundering Government announces new law to bring transparency to the property market The news follows numerous investigations exposing how the criminal and corrupt use anonymous companies to conceal their identity while they launder and stash dirty money in UK property. Press release | Dec. 16, 2019 Responsible Minerals Global Witness response to news that head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces preparing to hand over gold mining areas to Hamdouk government This move to hand a large chunk of the gold market back to Sudan’s government is a positive step in the right direction. Press release | Dec. 13, 2019 Forests Global Witness celebrates the news that players of People’s Postcode Lottery have now raised more than half a billion pounds for good causes The funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery helps us continue to investigate how and why destructive deforestation occurs. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10