COP30 made clear that while official negotiating spaces may fall short, transformative change for people, and for the planet, ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, the world’s most critical annual climate talks, new analysis from Global Witness reveals ...

The Head of Legal will provide comprehensive, strategic legal advice across a wide range of organisational activities, with a primary focus on investigations and litigation advice.

Peaceful climate protest in the UK is being policed much more heavily than far-right activism, with environmental activists ...

Global Witness is looking for a Director of People to shape an inclusive, forward-thinking and trailblazing organisation ...

Analysis reveals one in 25 of COP30 participants represent the fossil fuel industry, with over 1,600 lobbyists given access, ...

Campaigners are hailing today’s COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and ...

When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy of destructive industries Mining is emerging as a major risk factor for ...

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared* around the world last year defending their land, communities or the environment, a new report by Global Witness reveals. Today ...

USAID supporters rally in Washington, DC on February 05, 2025 to protest against the Trump administration's sudden freeze of foreign assistance. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Some of the world’s ...

A mine worker walks near the leaching pools near Pangwa (the Kachin Special Region 1), in Northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border in early 2024. Supplied by a Global Witness partner To reverse the ...

With Brazil’s president branding COP30 the "turnaround COP", environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and other experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include ...