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 ...

Some of the world’s lowest-income and most aid-dependent nations paying millions to lobbyists with ties to US President ...

[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests.

Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...

A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up for renewal this June, is likely to make the EU ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in financing provided ...

Ahead of second round of Romania’s presidential election, new investigation suggests TikTok is serving more far-right content to new, politically balanced users ...

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...

We share our predictions for climate disinformation in 2025, with a new US president, extreme weather and COP30 all heaping pressure on social media platforms ...

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climate talks, according to a new ...

Fossil fuel companies, not regular people, should be the ones to pay for worsening loss and damage costs caused by the climate crisis ...

The 25 deals SOCAR signed with foreign firms since Azerbaijan was announced as COP29 host are worth close to three times more than contracts sealed in the preceding 12 months (worth $3 billion) and ...