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Global Witness welcomes the release from Police custody today of Goldman Prize winning forest protection activist Ouch Leng and three other environmental defenders and calls on the Cambodian authorities to drop all investigations into their activities
We welcome news of targeted sanctions against Hun Sen’s cronies in Cambodia and leaders of the armed forces in Myanmar – and that Magnitsky-type sanctions could be coming to the EU.
The news that timber tycoon Try Pheap and General Kun Kim are to be sanctioned as individuals is significant
We could be seeing a new global poster boy for the widespread deforestation crippling the environment: rubber.
The Global Platform on Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) was launched today at the World Rubber Summit in Singapore.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister is an old hand at smoke and mirrors, and he’s up to his tricks again.
This is a major step in holding those bent on destroying Cambodia’s democracy to account
Despite the two countries’ many differences, Zimbabwean and Cambodian voters face a few challenges in common
As Cambodians head to the polls, Global Witness exposes an elusive club of politically exposed tycoons set to profit from the country's sham election
The Phnom Penh Post, together with other independent media organisations, has been an essential partner in our investigative work. Its closure is the final nail in the coffin for free media in Cambodia.
A new Sustainable Rubber Platform must not be a greenwash
As attacks on free speech continue in the country, new data release will help journalists expose corruption and abuse
As Vietnam Rubber Group prepares to launch an initial public offering, Global Witness is calling on investors to boycott the company
Rubber plantation, Shan state, Myanmar
Guidelines launched at an intergovernmental conference in Ho Chi Minh City are the most progressive yet in addressing the social and environmental risks for companies associated with large-scale rubber plantations around the world.
Attempts to dissolve Cambodia’s opposition are latest move by corrupt elite to maintain grip on power and wealth
The headline of the last-ever edition of the Cambodia Daily was an apt parting shot for a paper whose motto was ‘all the news, without fear or favour’, and one of just a handful of media outlets in Cambodia not under government control. It's now down to the business community to halt the regime’s march of authoritarianism
This latest wave of threats, closures and expulsions are clearly intended to scare the prime ministers’ critics into silence.
One of Cambodia’s most iconic activists has lost an appeal to overturn her 2½-year jail sentence
Interim recommendations of the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG)
