Runaway Risk
Dutch companies will profit from a new Philippines airport project being built at a high cost to communities and the environment

Decade of defiance
Ten years of reporting land and environmental activism worldwide

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Blog Post | March 02, 2023 Remembering Berta Cáceres: Seven years on, the fight for justice continues
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Blog Post | February 28, 2023 A historic sentence in Peru brings hope for land and environmental defenders
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Statement | February 17, 2023 Global Witness welcomes long-awaited court verdict providing justice for the murders of Indigenous land defenders in the Peruvian Amazon
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Blog Post | February 17, 2023 Fundo Casa: Highlighting the importance of Afro-Brazilian Quilombola representation at Climate COPs
Investigations
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Long Read | February 02, 2023 Runaway Risk
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Article | December 20, 2022 Violence, torture and threats continue, allege land and environmental defenders in Amazonian Brazil palm oil region
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Long Read | December 06, 2022 Toxic Takeaways
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Long Read | September 29, 2022 Decade of defiance
Press releases
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Press Release | February 02, 2023 Dutch construction companies will profit from Philippines mega-airport which is devastating local communities and environment
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Press Release | January 24, 2023 International NGOs Call for Release of Prominent Environmental Defender in Vietnam One Year After 5-Year Prison Sentence
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Press Release | December 19, 2022 Brazilian palm oil firm, BBF, ramps up violence against Indigenous peoples in final days of Bolsonaro rule
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Press Release | November 03, 2022 COP27: Human rights advocates urge parties to increase recognition and protection of environmental and land defenders
Blogs
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Blog Post | March 02, 2023 Remembering Berta Cáceres: Seven years on, the fight for justice continues
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Blog Post | February 28, 2023 A historic sentence in Peru brings hope for land and environmental defenders
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Blog Post | February 17, 2023 Fundo Casa: Highlighting the importance of Afro-Brazilian Quilombola representation at Climate COPs
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Blog Post | January 24, 2023 Making good on promises: How Mexico can transform the lives of environmental defenders by implementing the Escazú Agreement
Policy Briefings
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Briefing Document | April 28, 2020 Responsible Sourcing
Philippines
Duterte’s broken promises are leaving activists at the mercy of business at all costs in the Philippines, the country with the most killings of land and environmental defenders in 2018

Brazil
The climate-critical Amazon rainforest is under major threat from destructive agribusiness. Brazil is also one of the deadliest countries in the world for land and environmental defenders, many of them from indigenous communities
