The UK, the US and Nigeria are stalling efforts to extradite indicted war criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Nigeria to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him with a range of... read more
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Global Witness warmly welcomes the recent decision by the World Bank board to authorise an Inspection Panel investigation of its Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project in Cambodia (FCMCPP). For five... read more
30.04.2005 | Cameroon IFM End of Contract Project Review
Downloads
difd2005finalprojectreview.pdf read more
Joint Statement to the G8 Development and Environment Ministers
This is the collective call from Civil Society to the G8 Ministers, and we hope it will elicit a collective response, demonstrating the G8’s... read more
The G8 in 2005: priorities for action on illegal logging
Since the adoption of the G8 ‘Action Programme on Forests’ in May 1998, the rate of illegal logging has actually increased. According to a recent World Bank... read more
10.03.2005 | Commission for Africa report offers opportunity to address corruption and impunity in Africa
The long-awaited Commission for Africa report released tomorrow identifies poor governance, corruption, opaque business practices, and lack of political accountability as among the major challenges to Africa’s future... read more
31.12.2004 | Preparing to Pulp the Pulp Merchants? Cambodian Government Announces Legal Action against Predatory Paper Giant
The Cambodian Ministry of Environment has announced that it is preparing a legal action against Green Elite, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper company (APP) which has been illegally logging Botum Sakor National Park... read more
22.12.2004 | Open letter to the Minister of Environment: Ministry of Environment and Asia Pulp and Paper/Green Elite Company.
H.E. Mok Mareth
Minister of Environment
22nd December 2004
Your Excellency
Ministry of Environment and Asia Pulp and Paper/Green Elite Company
Green Elite is a front company formed by Asia Pulp... read more
14.09.2004 | Liberia: Resource - Curse or Cure
Liberia: Lifting UN sanctions before Security Council criteria are met will jeopardise Liberia’s recovery and threaten regional peace and security.
A new briefing document released today by Global Witness (1) concludes... read more
10.09.2004 | EU must act on Burma forest crisis
For Immediate Release, 10 September 2004
EU foreign ministers have in a recent statement on the EU’s relations with Burma, for the first time ever, recognised the devastation caused by the illegal and uncontrolled... read more
Immediate release: 9th July 2004
PRESS RELEASE
Cambodian Government Authorises Clear-Cutting in National Park
The current selling-out by senior Cambodian officials, of the country’s protected areas, has resulted in... read more
15.03.2004 | Phnom Penh Governor shooting incident: time to end the forest sector’s culture of impunity
Immediate release: 15th March 2004
PRESS RELEASE
Phnom Penh Governor shooting incident: time to end the forest sector’s culture of impunity
The attempts by bodyguards of Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema to shoot... read more
12.02.2004 | Chinese logging threatens one of the world’s hottest biodiversity spots, in Kachin State, Burma.
As 2,000 experts on biodiversity and sustainable development meet this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 7th conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (1), one of the world’s most exceptional... read more
1. Colexim Enterprise
Colexim Enterprise currently controls a 147,187 hectare timber concession covering part
of Prey Long – one of Cambodia’s most valuable remaining areas of forest, both in
commercial and ecological... read more
Immediate release: 22nd October 2003
PRESS RELEASE
World Bank-funded forestry project prepares to endorse illegal loggers in
Cambodia
A World Bank-funded forest concession management project is poised to recommend that... read more
The UK, the US and Nigeria are stalling efforts to extradite indicted war criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Nigeria to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him with a range of... read more
Global Witness warmly welcomes the recent decision by the World Bank board to authorise an Inspection Panel investigation of its Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project in Cambodia (FCMCPP). For five... read more
30.04.2005 | Cameroon IFM End of Contract Project Review
Downloads
difd2005finalprojectreview.pdf read more
Joint Statement to the G8 Development and Environment Ministers
This is the collective call from Civil Society to the G8 Ministers, and we hope it will elicit a collective response, demonstrating the G8’s... read more
The G8 in 2005: priorities for action on illegal logging
Since the adoption of the G8 ‘Action Programme on Forests’ in May 1998, the rate of illegal logging has actually increased. According to a recent World Bank... read more
10.03.2005 | Commission for Africa report offers opportunity to address corruption and impunity in Africa
The long-awaited Commission for Africa report released tomorrow identifies poor governance, corruption, opaque business practices, and lack of political accountability as among the major challenges to Africa’s future... read more
31.12.2004 | Preparing to Pulp the Pulp Merchants? Cambodian Government Announces Legal Action against Predatory Paper Giant
The Cambodian Ministry of Environment has announced that it is preparing a legal action against Green Elite, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper company (APP) which has been illegally logging Botum Sakor National Park... read more
22.12.2004 | Open letter to the Minister of Environment: Ministry of Environment and Asia Pulp and Paper/Green Elite Company.
H.E. Mok Mareth
Minister of Environment
22nd December 2004
Your Excellency
Ministry of Environment and Asia Pulp and Paper/Green Elite Company
Green Elite is a front company formed by Asia Pulp... read more
14.09.2004 | Liberia: Resource - Curse or Cure
Liberia: Lifting UN sanctions before Security Council criteria are met will jeopardise Liberia’s recovery and threaten regional peace and security.
A new briefing document released today by Global Witness (1) concludes... read more
10.09.2004 | EU must act on Burma forest crisis
For Immediate Release, 10 September 2004
EU foreign ministers have in a recent statement on the EU’s relations with Burma, for the first time ever, recognised the devastation caused by the illegal and uncontrolled... read more
Immediate release: 9th July 2004
PRESS RELEASE
Cambodian Government Authorises Clear-Cutting in National Park
The current selling-out by senior Cambodian officials, of the country’s protected areas, has resulted in... read more
15.03.2004 | Phnom Penh Governor shooting incident: time to end the forest sector’s culture of impunity
Immediate release: 15th March 2004
PRESS RELEASE
Phnom Penh Governor shooting incident: time to end the forest sector’s culture of impunity
The attempts by bodyguards of Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema to shoot... read more
12.02.2004 | Chinese logging threatens one of the world’s hottest biodiversity spots, in Kachin State, Burma.
As 2,000 experts on biodiversity and sustainable development meet this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 7th conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (1), one of the world’s most exceptional... read more
1. Colexim Enterprise
Colexim Enterprise currently controls a 147,187 hectare timber concession covering part
of Prey Long – one of Cambodia’s most valuable remaining areas of forest, both in
commercial and ecological... read more
Immediate release: 22nd October 2003
PRESS RELEASE
World Bank-funded forestry project prepares to endorse illegal loggers in
Cambodia
A World Bank-funded forest concession management project is poised to recommend that... read more
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