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 | June 23, 2022 Banks and financiers back beef giant JBS to the tune of almost $1bn despite links to widespread deforestation, land grabbing and slave labour in the Amazon, with tainted beef and leather entering British and European markets Giant meat trader JBS is still sourcing cattle from ranchers responsible for widespread illegal rainforest destruction and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon Statement | June 16, 2022 Statement on Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips Bruno and Dom worked heroically to protect the Amazon region and its inhabitants and protect the lungs of our planet Press release | Nov. 23, 2021 New investigation reveals global commodity giants fuelling land conflict and human rights abuses through trade of Brazilian soy Global commodity giants fuelling land conflict through trade of Brazilian soy Press release | May 6, 2021 Majority of Bunge shareholders vote for measures on deforestation but green groups issue urgent call for action Top institutional shareholders in Bunge Limited yesterday threw their weight behind a call for the company to do more to protect forests in the Brazilian Cerrado Statement | Feb. 9, 2021 Without justice for the Pau D’Arco massacre, the killing of land rights defenders will continue On January 26, Fernando dos Santos Araújo, land rights defender and survivor of the 2017 Pau D’Arco massacre, was shot and killed in the Brazilian state of Pará Press release | Dec. 2, 2020 Major global banks complicit in widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest linked to Brazilian beef companies, and international audits flawed Major Brazilian meat traders are failing to remove huge swathes of Amazon deforestation from their supply chains, which flawed audits by DNV-GL and Grant Thornton then did not pick up Press release | June 22, 2020 A letter to the Consumer Goods Forum: It’s Time to Stop the Fires and Deliver on ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ Commitments Companies should be delivering on crucial deforestation commitments. Press release | April 28, 2020 ‘Material risks growing’ for businesses failing to engage with human rights defenders New investor due diligence briefing from Global Witness and BHRRC outlines material risks and actions for investor to take as human rights defenders face increasing threats. Press release | Dec. 11, 2019 Forests Brazil New letter from 50 organisations urges investors and banks to note major risks of exposure to Amazon deforestation of buying shares in global meatpackers JBS and Marfrig Open letter urges investors to note the link between the world’s largest beef traders and devastating deforestation in the Amazon. Press release | Dec. 11, 2019 Forests Brazil Open Letter to global investors and financial service providers On the risk of exposure to Amazon Deforestation in reported sale by the Brazilian National Development Bank of shares in JBS and Marfrig Show Previous 10 Show Next 10
