Topic - Global Witness

Global Witness is an international NGO which investigates environmental and human rights abuses. - Source: Wikipedia

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Smoke billows behind Indigenous families as part of attacks on the Guarani Kaiowa ethnicity on Panambi Lagoa Rica Indigenous land in Douradina, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. The Indigenous people allege that farmers are responsible for the attack to discourage them from recuperating land. (AP Photo/Gabriel Schlickmann)

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A pumpjack operates at a drilling site in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Britain's Prince William speaks during a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center on the sidelines of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2, 2021. The conservation charity founded by the prince, who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world’s biggest backers of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Prince William charity invests in bank tied to fossil fuels

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An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Facebook misses election misinformation in Brazil ads

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The Facebook app is shown in the app store on a smart phone in Surfside, Fla., on April 23, 2021. According to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove, Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries. It is the third such test of Facebook's ability to detect hateful language — either via artificial intelligence or human moderators — that the groups have run, and that the company has failed. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

In a 3rd test, Facebook still fails to block hate speech

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FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Ashaninka Indian men, identified by locals as illegal loggers, tie tree trunks together to move them along the Putaya River near the hamlet of Saweto, Peru. Authorities in Peru said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, that they have charged five men in the timber industry with homicide in the deaths of indigenous activists who had battled illegal logging in their remote Amazon jungle homeland. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

AP Exclusive: Peruvian loggers charged in Amazon deaths

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EU calls for tougher checks on golden visa applicants

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FILE - In this June 15, 2016, file photo, a picture of Berta Caceres sits on an altar in her honor during a demonstration outside Honduras' embassy in Mexico City. Activists demanded justice after the murder of Caceres, a Lenca Indian activist who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in fighting a dam project. She was shot dead by two men on March 3. Global Witness said Tuesday, July 24, 2018 that at least 207 people who were protecting land and resources from business interests were slain last year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

More than 200 land activists slain last year, watchdog finds

By PETER ORSI and SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

A woman walks past a mural of slain environmentalist and indigenous leader Berta Caceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Global Witness released a report linking top Honduran politicians and members of the business elite to violence against land activists. The international watchdog group says Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, with more than 120 of them killed there since 2010. That includes last year's murder of Caceres, who was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work leading protests in opposition to a hydroelectric project on her Lenca people's ancestral lands. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Report links Honduran govt, industry to activist killings

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London-based Global Witness charged that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's success at the polls is a result of "electoral fraud and the brutal suppression of political opposition, including through murder, torture and arbitrary imprisonment." (Associated Press)

Hun Sen, Cambodian prime minister, amassed huge secret fortune, report finds

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