Global Witness

When founded in 1993, we were pioneers in seeing the link between natural resources, conflict and corruption. For over 25 years, we have investigated and exposed environmental and human rights abuses in the oil, gas, mining, and timber sectors, and tracked ill-gotten money and influence through the global financial and political system.

Today, we continue to focus on abusive actors, misuse of power and financial flows, but have turned our focus on some of the most urgent issues facing humanity: the climate emergency and attacks on civic space.

We work to hold companies and governments to account for their destruction of the environment, their disregard for the planet and their failure to protect human rights via campaigns to:

• curb the flow of finance enabling destruction of climate-critical tropical forests
• challenge  industry efforts to present fossil gas as climate-friendly
• end corporate complicity in environmental and human rights abuses
• protect land and environmental defenders standing up to climate-wrecking industries
• tackle the spread of division, hate and disinformation on digital platforms
• end corporate corruption and ensure companies in the natural resource sector can no longer operate above the law