Press Releases

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Press release | Nov. 25, 2020
Industry Push on Global Gold Centers Can Reduce Conflict Gold Trade

The gold industry’s new initiative to push gold bullion centers from Dubai to Switzerland to reform and fully implement consistent and credible responsible sourcing standards can have a strong positive impact on the deadly conflict gold trade, Global Witness, IMPACT, and The Sentry said today.
Press release | Nov. 19, 2020
EU Ombudsman decision exposes Commission weakness on climate-wrecking fossil gas

The European Ombudsman has today ruled that the European Commission failed to assess the climate risks when supporting fossil gas projects
Press release | Nov. 13, 2020
Global Witness statement following Myanmar elections

The NLD must use its renewed mandate from this election win as an opportunity to tackle the financial drivers of conflict, clean up the corrupt jade trade and place natural resource governance at the heart of the peace process.
Press release | Nov. 11, 2020
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“အြ ွေးသာွေး ဒီြ ိုကထ စီအဖွေွဲွဲ့ခ ပ်အစ ိုွေး သည် ထ ွေးန စ်ထက ာ် သက်တြ်ွေးအတွေင်ွေး မြန်ြာန ိုင်ငံရ အက ငဲ့်ပ က်မခစာွေးြှု ြ ာွေး န ငဲ့် ပဋ ပကခြ ာွေးက ို အဓ ပပာယ်မပညဲ့်ဝစွော က ိုင်တွေယ်ထမဖရ င်ွေးန ိုင်ခွဲဲ့မခင်ွေးြရ ထပ။ တ ိုင်ွေးမပည်သည် အ ကြ်ွေးဖက်ြှု ဒဏ်ြ ာွေးက ို ခံစ ြားထန ဆွဲမဖစ်ပပီွေး အက ွေးအမြတ်ြ ာွေးစွော ရ ထသာ သဘာဝသယံဇာတ ကဏ္ဍ၊ အ ူွေးသမဖငဲ့် ထဒေါ် ာ ဘီ ီယံထပါင်ွေးြ ာွေးစွောတန်သညဲ့် ထက ာက်စ ြ်ွေးကိုန်သွေယ်ထ ွေးကဏ္ဍအပါအဝင် စီွေးပွောွေးထ ွေးတွေင် ည်ွေး စစ်တပ်န ငဲ့် အက ွေးစီွေးပွောွေးဆက်နွေယ်ထနသူြ ာွေး သာ ကကီွေးစ ိုွေးမခယ် ယ်ထနဆွဲမဖစ်သည်။
Press release | Nov. 11, 2020
Global Witness response to UK government announcement on new deforestation law

While we welcome the UK government’s commitment to introduce legislation to tackle the UK’s role in global deforestation, the government’s proposals do not go far enough.
Press release | Oct. 30, 2020
New polling in key battleground states suggests voters are uneasy about targeted online political ads

Half of US voters who are regular social media users in three key swing states think the use of targeted political ads is detrimental to US democracy
Press release | Oct. 30, 2020
EU must end support for gas in disputed Eastern Mediterranean

New analysis reveals huge climate cost of controversial fossil gas projects
Press release | Oct. 27, 2020
Commission sounds starting gun on the road to delivering ground breaking corporate accountability legislation

EU Commission sounds starting gun on the road to delivering ground breaking corporate accountability legislation
Press release | Oct. 22, 2020
Global Witness welcomes landmark report from European Parliament on tackling EU’s role in global deforestation

This ground-breaking report is a clarion call for the EU to step up and tackle its role in global deforestation.
Press release | Oct. 20, 2020
Legal action against Cyprus and Malta vital first step from EU on Golden Visas

After years of campaigning against the EU wide abuse of golden visas, Global Witness today warmly welcomes news that the European Union is finally taking concrete action against these schemes.