The illicit trade in diamonds has funded wars and human rights abuses for decades. Global Witness was the first organisation to bring this issue to the world’s attention.

While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...

Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...

Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...

The UK introduced the world’s first fully open register of the real owners of its companies in 2016, leading the world in the fight against corruption. While the register has the potential to make it ...

Fossil fuel companies have our future in a chokehold. They’ve captured our politicians’ ears, infiltrated climate summits and fuelled and funded war. We’re exposing how far fossil fuel companies will ...

The warning signs were there from the outset. The Trump Ocean Club, one of Trump’s most lucrative licensing deals to date, was announced in 2006 and launched in 2011, a period when Panama was known as ...

They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...

Myanmar's poisoned mountains The toxic rare earth mining industry at the heart of the global green energy transition ...

Myanmar’s military and armed groups tightened their grip on the country’s lucrative jade trade even as the previous civilian government worked to reform the industry, with the coup threatening to ...

But acknowledgement of fossil fuels’ role in the climate crisis often comes with bothsidesism Our investigation found that where generative AI models are used as sources of reliable information on ...

Our survival depends on collective climate action, yet Big Tech companies have allowed divisions to flourish online for profit. Fuelled by climate disinformation, polarising algorithms and toxic hate ...