The illicit trade in diamonds has funded wars and human rights abuses for decades, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of people. There is a reason they are dubbed ‘blood diamonds’.

Tech company Meta is breaking French anti-discrimination law, due to the sexist recommendations of its algorithm, according ...

Documenting the increasingly important role played by the Liberian timber industry and shipping register in fuelling regional ...

Rather than heed climate protests and defender voices and act to protect the environment, states are manipulating laws to ...

Without information integrity – where we can trust what we are told in the news and online – climate disinformation runs rife ...

Global Witness invites request for proposals to conduct an independent final evaluation of our grant funded by the Norwegian ...

Proposed route for the six-lane superhighway in 2015 which threatened to rip through 52km of Ekuri community and the heart of Cross River National Park. Thanks to public pressure, a new route was ...

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 ...

Corruption keeps poor countries poor, encourages conflict and instability and leads to environmental destruction. For years our investigators followed the money and came up against the same problems.

A new Global Witness investigation indicates that international commodities trader Traxys has bought conflict coltan smuggled from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Rwanda The investigation ...

The entrance to the Veolia San Silvestre Environmental Technology Park. Leonardo Granados / Global Witness Global Witness obtained a series of videos secretly filmed within the Veolia-managed site ...