When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy ...

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental ...

In Asia, criminalisation and detention of defenders is increasingly common. Here, we analyse how governments weaponise laws ...

I could tell you that, around the world, three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land, their environment, from extractive forces. I could tell you that this has been going on ...

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 ...

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 ...

When TotalEnergies first visited Swalehe Nkungu’s remote Tanzanian village in 2018, he and his neighbours were promised favourable compensation in exchange for their land. Five years later, Swalehe ...

Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment Download the full report ...

Imagine that you’ve spent years studying glacial retreat in the Arctic. You believe you have a duty to share your findings that reveal how our world is changing with a wider public. But you remember ...

Climate action is a vote winner. Polls have shown that around the world, people have woken up to the threat which the climate crisis poses to their futures – and want their elected leaders to take ...

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, ...