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Today our mission of protecting the planet’s vital resources remains as critical as ever, but our ambition has grown. Find out about our impacts from the past 12 months, how our work is evolving and our plans for the future.

We alert the world to ‘blood diamonds’ fuelling civil war in Angola and across Africa, thrusting the practices of the global diamond industry into the spotlight. The campaign leads to the establishment of the precedent-setting Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme and to Global Witness being co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

2 days ago · In 2024, our investigation found that a far-right media site, The Epoch Times, which regularly publishes climate-sceptic content, generated close to $1.5 million in combined revenue for Google and the website owners over a 12-month period. This is despite Google’s policies not allowing advertisements on climate denial content. The Epoch Times also published adverts promoting climate ...

Oct 6, 2023 · Energy crises. As the summer was closing, energy prices leaping and inflation ballooning, it dawned on us that the world’s biggest polluters – oil and gas firms cooking the planet with their products and funding the devastation of Ukraine – were about to take centre stage in a third, related, global crisis.

Global Witness has had an office in Washington, D.C. for over 15 years. We are campaigning for the US government to: - Curb corruption and conflicts of interest in political decision-making - Root out the influence of money in politics - Bring transparency and accountability to the US oil and gas industry at home and abroad - Put the public interest ahead of polluting industries

1994: GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDED. Sourcing their first computer out of the trash, and relying on friends and family to pay for their international calls, our founders are the first to identify the link between natural resources, conflict and corruption and to systematically document and expose how this sustains poverty, fuels instability and destroys the environment.

$44 billion - the amount which 300+ banks and investors including household names pumped into six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses, linked to devastating rainforest destruction.. $4.9 trillion - how much the oil and gas industry is set to spend over ten years on exploration and extraction of fossil fuels our planet can’t afford to burn.. …

The need to phase-out fossil fuels has seen a rise in the demand for minerals that are critical to the energy transition. But mining is a dirty business, with a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental damage.

In the run up to the 30th UN Climate Summit (COP30) in 2025, Global Witness is accelerating our work to put communities, land and environmental defenders and civil society at the heart of climate-decision making Read more