Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels 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 | Jan. 19, 2023 Facebook approves for publication ads with death threats and calls to violence following violent protests in Brazil Just days after violent anti-democratic attacks in Brazil, Facebook approved ads for publication that called on people to take up arms and storm government buildings, made explicit death threats against Lula supporters and their children, and described the election as stolen Press release | Jan. 10, 2023 Brazil insurrection: Social media platforms must act to stop spread of disinformation and calls to violence Social media firms must immediately implement emergency “break the glass” measures to protect Brazilian democracy Press release | Dec. 19, 2022 Brazilian palm oil firm, BBF, ramps up violence against Indigenous peoples in final days of Bolsonaro rule Cargill and others suspend trade with BBF in response, Global Witness calls on firms to permanently terminate purchases Press release | Dec. 16, 2022 Mark Carney firm offloaded farms linked to deforestation and human rights abuses in hypocrisy-ridden 'slash and sell' strategy Brookfield sells off deforestation linked lands instead of rectifying damage Statement | Nov. 10, 2022 Crimes against humanity committed in the Brazilian Amazon: criminal case filed at the International Criminal Court We're supporting the Climate Counsel, Greenpeace Brasil and Observatório do Clima, in calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged crimes against humanity in Brazil Press release | Oct. 20, 2022 After repeated warnings YouTube and Facebook continue to approve blatant disinformation on their platforms ahead of tense Brazilian presidential run off YouTube and Facebook are still allowing disinformation related to the Brazilian Presidential election to be published, despite repeated warnings Press release | Sept. 26, 2022 Brazil’s biggest palm oil producers Agropalma and Brasil Biofuels accused of serious human rights violations against communities in the Pará region We're calling on international companies that purchase palm oil from Agropalma and BBF to urgently prevent any further harms to members of the Pará community. Press release | Sept. 14, 2022 In run up to tense Brazilian Presidential vote, Facebook still failing to prevent spread of election disinformation A month after Global Witness exposes failings, half of tested disinformation ads still being approved Statement | Aug. 17, 2022 Open letter to Meta, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube concerning the upcoming Brazilian election We’ve already seen evidence of people on social media attempting to discredit the electoral process, and threats of violence in this election cycle. It’s critical to the health of our democracy, our society, and our environment that social media companies act now 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 Show Next 10
