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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 ...
[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests. Global Witness commissioned the first global ...
Red-tagging is a practice that connects online and real-world harms, where individuals or groups (often progressive political activists or land and environmental defenders) are labelled as communists, ...
A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up for renewal this June, is likely to make the EU ...
Majority of gas worth $19 billion transited Palestinian waters against Palestine's consent while Palestine received nothing ...
Some of the world’s lowest-income and most aid-dependent nations paying millions to lobbyists with ties to US President Donald Trump as the United States halts foreign assistance, new investigation ...
Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand in the way of progress at COP30 Imagine earning the responsibility of ...
As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve mining's ESG issues abroad?
The renewable energy boom has triggered a new rush for resources, as countries race to secure their supply of transition minerals. But this push for clean technology could quickly turn dirty, unless ...
The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition Ading Releno is a member of the ...