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 Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals 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 | May 23, 2024 New investigation reveals the alarming expansion of heavy rare earth mining in Myanmar, and the devastating cost for communities and the environment The world’s dependence on heavy rare earths from Myanmar’s conflict-affected Kachin state has rapidly increased and is having a devastating impact on communities and the environment. Press release | March 1, 2023 Myanmar: New shipments of aviation fuel revealed despite the military’s war crimes Aviation fuel shipments to Myanmar have continued despite the military’s ongoing war crimes, Amnesty International and Global Witness said today, after they identified more companies involved in the supply chain. Press release | Dec. 6, 2022 Global Witness condemns arrest of Kachin civil society leader in Myanmar Reverend Samson is the latest of thousands to be arbitrarily detained by the Myanmar junta since it attempted to seize power in a coup in February 2021 Statement | Nov. 2, 2022 United States government: Take concrete action to support the people of Myanmar Global Witness joins 288 organizations in calling for concrete US action in response to Kachin music festival bombing Statement | Aug. 25, 2022 Myanmar: New sanctions welcome, but not enough Five years on from the Rohingya Genocide, the United States and the United Kingdom have missed yet another opportunity to cut off the Myanmar junta’s income from the oil and gas sector Press release | April 6, 2022 Global Witness welcomes passage of the BURMA Act by the US House of Representatives and calls on the Senate to follow suit The bill’s provisions bring together the four primary threads of US policy towards Myanmar: targeting military revenues through sanctions, supporting the pro-democracy movement, authorizing humanitarian assistance, and pursuing accountability for the military’s atrocities Press release | March 21, 2022 New investigation shows Facebook approves ads containing hate speech inciting genocide against the Rohingya Our investigation has uncovered that Facebook still fails to detect and root out hate speech inciting violence and genocide against the Rohingya despite its commitments to better detect Burmese language hate speech Press release | March 21, 2022 Rohingya Youth Wait in World’s Largest Refugee Camp to Hear from Facebook, as Platform Fails to Detect Hate Speech Against Them A group of young Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have taken on Facebook over the platform's role in inciting widespread violence Press release | Feb. 22, 2022 Global Witness welcomes significant new EU sanctions, including on Myanmar state-owned oil and gas company MOGE The EU announced that it is adding Myanmar’s state-owned oil and gas company to its sanctions list, along with 22 individuals and three other companies Press release | Jan. 21, 2022 Global Witness welcomes Total and Chevron’s withdrawal from Myanmar and calls on US, France and others to sanction state-owned oil and gas company Global Witness welcomes the news that oil & gas giants Total and Chevron will withdraw from Myanmar. The United States and France must urgently back sanctions on the country’s oil and gas industry. Show Next 10
