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Climate crisis documentaries to watch: recommended by Global Witness staff

Engage, be inspired and informed by these climate crisis documentaries

Do people really want personalised ads online?

Our new polling of social media users in Germany and France reveals people are uneasy about the way they are profiled and targeted with ads.

Biden can’t claim climate leadership while shipping fossil fuels abroad

To show true climate leadership, Biden must act to ban fossil fuel exports and protect communities from associated environmental injustices.

Cool Runnings, commodity traders and global capital – a review of ‘The World for Sale’

Big Oil is paying the police for protection. Here’s why that’s a problem

Protestors are calling on US President Biden to block a huge oil pipeline through their land, in the face of intimidation from police and politicians

Policy and Practice: Does the International Criminal Court have the will to prosecute environmental crimes?

A 2014 complaint concerning the Cambodian government's land grabbing and human rights abuses has languished in the ICC's case file - could that be about to change?

#ChooseToChallenge 2021 - Our gender pay gap

The 2021 theme for International Women’s Day is ‘choose to challenge’. As Director of HR at Global Witness, the challenge I’ve chosen to address is the UK government’s decision to postpone gender pay gap reporting for 6 months

Women defying the climate crisis: Hear their stories

Across the world, women are leading the fight against the climate crisis. On International Women’s Day, Global Witness stands in solidarity with their actions and shares their stories so we can all learn from their success.

Global voices join together to call for corporate accountability

Hundreds of thousands of citizens from around the world joined growing calls for the EU to introduce a new, strong law to hold companies accountable

Five years on from Berta Cáceres’ assassination, impunity reigns in Honduras - updated

Despite the international outcry that followed Berta’s murder, the Honduran government is consistently failing in its duty to protect its own citizens