The Guardian
Thu Apr 24 2025
BHRRC
China Labor Watch and Coffee Watch had jointly published the investigative report named "'Ghost Farms and Coffee Laundering': labor violations in Starbucks’ and Nestlé’s Chinese coffee supply chain". Findings include multiple labor violations that went against Starbucks and Nestlé’s own ethical sourcing standards. Findings include instances of child labor, low wages, excessive working hours, no paid leaves, no medical insurance, and no protective gear. Certified suppliers of coffee beans made use of uncertified smallholder farms, paving way to irregular employment and intransparency in supply chains.
Tue Dec 03 2024
Global Witness
An area of tropical forest the size of Los Angeles has been lost in just two years thanks to imports of palm oil, beef, coffee and other products flooding the US market, according to new research by provided by Trase to Global Witness
26 March 2024
Global Witness
The lack of regulation of imported goods to the UK helped destroy an area of global forest equivalent in size to Cardiff, Liverpool or Newcastle over the last year, new Global Witness analysis shows
20 March 2025
Global Witness
The EU’s anti-deforestation law (EUDR) has been delayed by a year – but the fight to protect nature, people and the European Green Deal goes on
18 December 2024
Global Witness
Palm oil and other commodities imported into the US over the last two years have been linked to an area of tropical deforestation the size of Los Angeles
26 March 2024
Global Witness
A review of how EU-based banks are pouring billions into deforestation
12 March 2024
Global Witness
More than two years after the passage of the Environment Act, the UK government today announced which forest-risk commodities can no longer be imported to the UK if they were produced on illegally deforested land
09 December 2023
Global Witness
Three emerging lithium mines in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risk fuelling corruption and causing a range of other environmental, social and governance problems
14 November 2023
Global Witness
When Brazil’s newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meets President Xi Jinping later this week, there is one issue both leaders need to address: the surging deforestation in the Amazon, which is pushing the rainforest towards its tipping point.
11 April 2023
Global Witness
In the early hours of 6 December 2022, the EU reached an historic agreement to halt and reverse its substantial role in global deforestation
13 December 2022
Global Witness
Rubber, even more than palm oil, is the agricultural export that poses the biggest threat to the tropical forests of Central and West Africa. Yet under current proposals it will be excluded from new EU deforestation laws
16 June 2022
Global Witness
New analysis indicates that the Environment Act could fail to tackle much of the UK’s deforestation footprint abroad, despite the UK government’s claims of a "world-leading" law
10 March 2022
Global Witness
19 December 2018
Global Witness
24 July 2018
Global Witness
Huge international mining companies acquired major mining concessions in Congo for billions of dollars - but most of the money never reached state coffers
13 May 2014