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Global Witness has strongly condemned the move by the UK government to proscribe as a terrorist organisation the protest ...
For the first time, the research calculates the cost of climate damages caused by emissions from EU imports of US liquified ...
As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...
Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...
The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US law makers retreating ...
With climate change impacts steadily rising, the billions pocketed by fossil fuels is an insult to the communities worst hit. It's time to make polluters pay ...
Recent events in Israel and Iran show once again our economic vulnerabilities to oil price shocks and how inadvisable it is for the current Administration to pull back US investments in clean energy.
The mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...
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 ...
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 ...
Philippe-Henri Edmonds was one of England’s most brilliant and controversial cricketers. Andrew Groves was the hard-talking son of a Zimbabwean policeman. Together they developed a near-infallible ...