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Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...
Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters against Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing ...
Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...
[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests.
Global Witness and Both ENDS strongly condemn the reported of harassment and surveillance by the Armed Forces of the Philippines of environmental activists and fisherfolk communities in Navotas, ...
We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back ...
The Philippines, which consists of over 7,600 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the countries most at-risk from climate change. Many communities are already feeling the impacts of more severe ...
Minerals extracted by hand from the African Great Lakes region are in huge demand. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda produce nearly half the world’s coltan, the main ore of ...
They all recognised the importance of forests in the global effort to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, including Brazil – despite spiralling deforestation under President Bolsonaro. Yet one statistic ...
We polled almost 500 global climate scientists on their experiences of online harassment. The findings reveal personal and collective harms from online hate, and signal ways to make social media ...
While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...