Tech company Meta is breaking French anti-discrimination law, due to the sexist recommendations of its algorithm, according ...

Rather than heed climate protests and defender voices and act to protect the environment, states are manipulating laws to ...

Without information integrity – where we can trust what we are told in the news and online – climate disinformation runs rife ...

Global Witness invites request for proposals to conduct an independent final evaluation of our grant funded by the Norwegian ...

Documenting the increasingly important role played by the Liberian timber industry and shipping register in fuelling regional ...

"My organisation, CONAQ, has been persistently demanding our rights over land for the best part of three decades. As our saying goes, 'Titled land means granted freedom'. But it doesn’t just benefit ...

Early one October morning, trustees of a San Diego pension fund gathered at their headquarters on the outskirts of town to hear a pitch for an investment with an unusually high rate of return: 20-25%.

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 ...

Our findings suggest that a climate of fear in both Uganda and Tanzania is stopping civil society and communities from challenging the pipeline. TotalEnergies' representatives, contractors and ...

This report, and our campaign, is dedicated to all those individuals, communities and organisations that are bravely taking a stand to defend human rights, their land and our environment. Last year, ...

Until now the jade sector’s worth has been almost impossible to determine. But on the basis of new research and analysis, Global Witness estimates the value of jade production to have been as much as ...

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 ...