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 | Dec. 19, 2017 Corruption & Money Laundering Appleby Launch Legal Action Against the Guardian and BBC - Global Witness Response. Appleby, the offshore company at the heart of the Paradise Papers revelations have launched legal action against the Guardian and BBC seeking to force disclosure of journalists’ source documents and seeking damages from both organisations. Press release | Dec. 19, 2017 Forests Liberia Liberian loggers’ secret tax break wipes US$13 million off country’s finances Global Witness and Tropenbos International condemn new law that rewards logging companies at the expense of Liberia’s people and call on Liberia’s donors to halt their support until it is overturned. Press release | Dec. 15, 2017 Anonymous Companies Corruption & Money Laundering Banks European Union EU agrees on new ground-breaking rules to end anonymous companies, but falls short on trusts Today the EU agreed on new rules to reveal the true owners of EU companies and trusts connected to the EU, through changes to the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive Press release | Dec. 15, 2017 Oil, Gas & Mining Nigeria We Condemn the Attempted Assassination of Nigeria’s EFCC Acting Chair Magu We the undersigned condemn the cowardly armed attack and apparent assassination attempt against Mr Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chair of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Press release | Dec. 13, 2017 Oil, Gas & Mining Majority of Republicans on House Committee Vote to Overturn Landmark Cardin-Lugar Anti-Corruption Provision Vote by the majority of Republicans on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to overturn a bipartisan transparency law is a major setback for combating corruption and a gift to big oil companies. Press release | Dec. 11, 2017 Corruption & Money Laundering Anonymous Companies UK’s Anti-Corruption Strategy - Global Witness response Today Theresa May announced a long overdue UK anti-corruption strategy promised as one of the commitments that came out of the government’s May 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit. Read why we don't think it goes far enough Press release | Dec. 9, 2017 Responsible Minerals Afghanistan Integrity Watch Afghanistan and Global Witness: Parliament’s rejection of acting Minister for Mines prolongs the theft of Afghanistan’s natural resources The recent vote against confirming the Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Ms. Nargis Nehan has failed to take into account the extreme urgency of reforming Afghanistan’s extractive sector Press release | Dec. 8, 2017 Forests Liberia Convicted arms and conflict timber trafficker Guus Kouwenhoven arrested for role in Liberia’s civil war We welcome news that Guus Kouwenhoven, notorious Dutch trafficker of arms and conflict timber, has been arrested for his actions in fuelling and profiting from Liberia's bloody civil war. Press release | Nov. 30, 2017 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Global Witness calls for Glencore’s business partner to explain mining discount in Democratic Republic of Congo New analysis by the non-profit Resource Matters, published yesterday, shows in watertight detail how a company part-owned by commodities giant Glencore, mining magnate Dan Gertler and other investors received a $440 million discount on a payment to Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned mining company. This came following negotiations by Gertler, a controversial friend of Congo’s President Kabila. Gertler has been linked to numerous mining bribery scandals. Press release | Nov. 29, 2017 Global Witness testifies in the U.S. House of Representatives on the need for stronger anti-money laundering laws Today Global Witness testifies in the U.S. House of Representatives on the need to strengthen U.S. anti-money laundering laws to counter terrorism and illicit finance. Drug traffickers and terrorists use anonymously-owned companies to move cash through the U.S., enabling them to continue operating while slipping under the radar of law enforcement, warns Global Witness. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10