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A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up for renewal this June, is likely to make the EU ...
Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...
Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters without Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing for it A 2022 gas deal between Israel, Egypt and the EU could make the EU ...
We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forests in Sarawak, Malaysia have nearly been wiped out by one ruling family. Find out more about our undercover investigation into the country's timber trade.
The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...