Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil gas Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Natural resource governance Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | Aug. 15, 2022 Facebook approves election disinformation ads ahead of tense Brazil election We submitted ten Brazilian Portuguese-language ads that contained election disinformation, and 100% of them were accepted for publication by Facebook Press release | Aug. 9, 2022 New evidence shows massive and rapid expansion of illicit rare earths industry in Myanmar, fuelling human rights abuses, environmental destruction and funding military-linked militias Our ground-breaking investigation is the first in-depth look at rare earth mining in Myanmar Statement | Aug. 5, 2022 Facebook failure to act on hate speech ahead of Kenyan election “shocking” A week after we exposed how Facebook approved online ads containing hate speech and calling for ethnic violence in Kenya, Facebook has not publicly communicated any changes it will be making to safeguard the election Press release | July 29, 2022 Use “break glass” measures and suspend ads to protect Kenyan election, rights groups and Frances Haugen demand Global Witness, Foxglove and the “Facebook Files” whistleblower Frances Haugen are calling on Facebook to deploy emergency measures in Kenya to protect the integrity of the country’s election Press release | July 28, 2022 Facebook approves ads calling for ethnic violence in the lead up to a tense Kenyan election New investigation shows that Facebook failed to detect inflammatory and violent hate speech ads in the two official languages of Kenya – Swahili and English Statement | July 21, 2022 Egypt: Statements on COP27 imply restricting activism Egyptian authorities should ease their grip on civic space and uphold the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly to enable a successful COP27 climate summit in Egypt. Press release | July 21, 2022 President Biden must declare a climate emergency and use his full powers to combat the climate crisis President Biden has yet to declare the patently obvious, that the world is experiencing a climate emergency. Global Witness is among over 1,000 organizations who have urged the US President to issue an emergency declaration that would unleash the full power of the presidential authority to address the greatest existential crisis the world is facing. Statement | July 18, 2022 Seismic change needed at Glencore following a decade of corruption In response to Glencore’s decade of corruption, civil society groups call for urgent action from the company and its partners Press release | July 12, 2022 MEPs back holding banks accountable in stronger EU anti-deforestation law The EU Parliament’s environment committee also backed stronger protections for Indigenous Peoples Press release | July 8, 2022 New report by UK government taskforce recommends UK laws to stop financial sector bankrolling global deforestation New report from the UK government’s GRI taskforce makes a compelling case for the need to bring in legislation that stops the UK financial sector continuing to bankroll global deforestation Show Next 10
