Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...

[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests.

Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...

Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters without Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing for it A 2022 gas deal between Israel, Egypt and the EU could make the EU ...

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 ...

Brookfield’s “slash and sell” tactics should not absolve it from responsibility for the environmental abuses committed on its farms. Its ability to cash in on deforestation underlines the need for ...

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...