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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, International, International Environment, Population & Sustainability, International Human Rights
Mission: FIND THE FACTS | EXPOSE THE STORY | CHANGE THE SYSTEM
Results: At Global Witness, we protect human rights and the environment by fearlessly confronting corruption and challenging the systems that enable it. When founded in 1993, we were pioneers in seeing the link between natural resources, conflict and corruption. Since our very first campaign to shut down the Khmer Rouge’s illegal logging industry we’ve uncovered the truth about blood diamonds and helped bring trillions of oil, gas and mining revenues into the open. We’ve shone a spotlight on the brutal killings of those defending their land from forced seizure by corporations and governments alike, campaigned for an end to the use of anonymous companies, and much more. In early 2022, recognizing our unique expertise in conflict finance, we launched a campaign to expose how the EU, UK and US fossil fuel industry was helping to fund Putin's war in Ukraine
Target demographics: communities, particularly Indigenous and traditional communities disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, that face threats to their lives and land, including natural resource exploitation, deforestation, and the criminalization and killing of Land and Environmental Defenders (LEDs)
Geographic areas served: critical areas across the globe, such as Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Ukraine, and many more.
Programs: hard-hitting investigations that drive change to the financial systems underpinning global crises, including campaigns in the areas of Forests, Land and Environmental Defenders, Fossil Fuels, Digital Threats, and Transition Minerals.