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 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 Press release | Nov. 12, 2019 Forests Brazil Major meatpackers and the banks that fund them must do more to stop the destruction of the Amazon New results suggest major meatpackers could be doing more to curb destructive deforestation in the Amazon. Press release | Sept. 23, 2019 Forests Papua New Guinea Congo-Brazzaville Brazil Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction A truly global picture of major financial players driving $44 billion into companies involved in deforestation Press release | Dec. 14, 2018 Corruption & Money Laundering Brazil Senior execs of top world oil traders implicated in bribery scandal Trafigura and Vitol, the commodity trading giants, find themselves deeply embroiled in Brazil’s Car Wash scandal. Press release | Nov. 8, 2018 Oil, Gas & Mining Brazil World’s biggest oil traders paid middlemen accused in ‘Car Wash’ mega-scandal, Global Witness reveals The world’s top two commodity traders used middlemen notorious for their role in Brazil’s mammoth “Car Wash” bribery scandal. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10