As long as agribusinesses and global financial institutions continued to fuel and make money from global deforestation these carbon sinks will continue to be razed
The court battle to stop coal mining in rural KwaZulu-Natal has heightened the sense of danger among environmental activists
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live with every day
A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
No image available
/ 15 February 2012
Global Witness has said mining officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe are stashing profits from Zimbabwe’s diamond fields off shore.
Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.
No image available
/ 5 December 2011
Global Witness has left the Kimberley Process after a series of disagreements, including the resumption of sales of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds.
Zimbabwe could earn billions of dollars selling diamonds from an area scarred by abuse after a crisis that left the "blood diamond" watchdog tattered.
Zimbabwe’s political and military leaders have used violence and intimidation to seize control of the country’s lucrative diamond business.
A rights group on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe to abandon plans to sell "blood diamonds" from a field plagued by abuses.
No image available
/ 16 February 2010
The watchdog group Global Witness on Monday urged cellphone manufacturers to beware of "conflict minerals" being used in their products.
No image available
/ 7 September 2009
Sudan’s central government could owe its semi-autonomous south hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue, a watchdog group said on Monday.
Some of the world’s biggest banks have been dealing with some of the world’s most corrupt regimes, Global Witness said in a report on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 23 January 2009
Rich Congolese mineral deposits are both the bounty and the curse of the war-torn nation, the seeds of recovery and the drivers of the bloody conflict
No image available
/ 29 February 2008
Buyers of minerals from rebel areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should be punished under a United Nations arms embargo, a group of experts has told the Security Council. A five-year war in the country has left much of DRC’s eastern borderlands a volatile patchwork of rebel fiefdoms and militia-controlled zones.
No image available
/ 14 October 2007
Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo has called for an investigation into long-standing accusations that cocoa and coffee boards have embezzled funds meant to aid the producers of the country’s lucrative crops, a spokesperson said. The boards set prices for crops, oversee exports and provide development assistance.