Communities

The village of Kasheli in Maharashtra, India

Land and Environmental Defenders

Fuelling oppression

07 February 2024

Fossil Fuels

French giant TotalEnergies implicated in intimidation of communities affected by controversial oil pipeline

04 December 2023

Land and Environmental Defenders

Dutch construction companies will profit from Philippines mega-airport which is devastating local communities and environment

02 February 2023

Shruti Suresh speaking at COP27 side event, 2022

Land and Environmental Defenders

Amplifying the voices of land and environmental defenders at COP27

21 December 2022

Land and Environmental Defenders

‘Turn words into action’: A turning point for Latin American defenders?

06 December 2022

Transition Minerals

United States government: Take concrete action to support the people of Myanmar

02 November 2022

Land and Environmental Defenders

In numbers: Lethal attacks against defenders since 2012

29 September 2022

Land and Environmental Defenders

How Europe can stop funding land grabs in Brazil

30 May 2022

Transition Minerals

Global Witness welcomes passage of the BURMA Act by the US House of Representatives and calls on the Senate to follow suit

06 April 2022

Land and Environmental Defenders

Short environmental films to watch on the go

11 March 2022

Aldira Akai Munduruku and women film collective

Land and Environmental Defenders

How we can use film to create social change

11 March 2022

An army base overlooks a coffee plantation in Mindanao, the Philippines. Eight members of the community who opposed the plantation were killed in an army attack in 2017

Land and Environmental Defenders

Every election is now a climate election

25 January 2022

Riot police stand on guard in front of the Central Bank building during a demonstration in Myanmar, February 2021

Transition Minerals

Three months on from the military coup, what should the international community do to support the people of Myanmar?

06 May 2021

A still from the film Mossville, showing Stacey Ryan a resident affected by petrochemical plants in Mossville, Louisiana, US.

Land and Environmental Defenders

Climate crisis documentaries to watch: recommended by Global Witness staff

20 March 2021

Image of Cerrejón Coal Mine in Barrancas, La Guajira, Colombia, in 2019

Corporate Accountability

“We are going to kill you.” A case study in corporate power left unchecked

25 January 2021

Local residents walk through what was once forest, recently cleared to make way for a rubber plantation in Ratanakiri Province

Land Deals

From policies to practice: How the rubber industry can clean up its act

29 March 2019

Land and Environmental Defenders

Climate change on the front line: Why marginalized voices matter in climate change negotiations

09 August 2017

Landowner on forest land destroyed in Papua New Guinea

Land Deals

Tainted lands: Corruption in large-scale land deals

15 November 2016

Student environmentalist protesters in front the gate of Department of National Resources protesting against the Tampakan gold and copper project in southern Mindanao, The Phillipines

Land and Environmental Defenders

Filipinos on the front line

16 April 2014