Investigations and advocacy for climate justice & civic freedoms
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About us - Global Witness
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.
Investigations and advocacy for climate justice & civic freedoms
For a limited time only, your donation to our campaigns will be matched by the Big Give Christmas Challenge, doubling your support for our on-the-ground investigations, advocacy and defence of climate-vulnerable communities.
Global Witness annual reports
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.
Blog | Global Witness | Global Witness
Dec 12, 2024 · The latest comment and updates from the Global Witness team on world issues including human rights and environmental abuses, the climate crisis and natural resource corruption. |
25 years of creating change | Global Witness
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.
Campaigns | Global Witness
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.
Annual report 2022: Rising to the challenge of a world in crisis
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.
Road to COP30 - Global Witness
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
Press Releases | Country: United States | Global Witness
Oct 17, 2024 · Press releases and resources for journalists from Global Witness. For general media enquiries please call + 44 (0) 7912 517 127 or email [email protected].For enquiries about our EU campaigns please contact +32 487 80 31 61.