InfoAmazonia
Over the past 30 years, the three companies that have managed Block 10, an oil extraction site in the Ecuadorian Amazon, have sought to divide local communities and increase their reliance on their corporations. However, Indigenous leaders and organizations are actively pushing back against these efforts.
23 April 2025
InfoAmazonia
Oil exploration in Peru generates millions for public works, but only half the funds had reached Amazonian municipalities by 2023. The city of Mazán exemplifies this gap between revenue generated and tangible benefits for the population.
15 April 2025
InfoAmazonia
President Gustavo Petro pledged to halt oil and gas exploration in the Amazon. However, Colombia faces a complex challenge, with the oil industry, armed groups, and Indigenous communities vying for control of the same territories.
10 April 2025
InfoAmazonia
Oil companies are covertly positioning to extract oil from the entire mouth of the Amazon River, an investigation shows. Drilling in this ecologically sensitive region could impact traditional communities, and nature reserves.
3 April 2025
InfoAmazonia
Half a century of oil exploration has left the world’s largest rainforest scarred by deforestation, water contamination and air pollution. Indigenous lands have been infringed and economic disparities exacerbated. Now a new wave of drilling threatens to perpetuate this destructive legacy.
1 April 2025
The Guardian
Sun Feb 23 2025
Global Witness
An undercover investigation reveals how Azerbaijani petrostate used position as COP29 host to facilitate discussion of new fossil fuel deals at climate summit
08 November 2024
Global Witness
Oil and gas producers who signed up to a decarbonisation pact at the COP28 summit last month are set to collectively emit more than 150 billion tonnes of CO2 from their products by 2050
26 January 2024
Global Witness
The UAE has invited fossil fuel bosses planning to produce more than 25 billion barrels of oil this decade into the heart of COP28, according to new analysis.
11 December 2023
Global Witness
Al Jaber's company is planning to spend more than $100 billion between now and 2030 on oil and gas production alone
04 September 2023
Global Witness
We went to sea to trace barrels of Russian oil some 17,000 miles to Gatwick via Gujarat
03 May 2023
Global Witness
Condemnations, commitments, asset write-offs, sanctions, and a total realignment of commodity flows - the Western companies that traded the most Russian oil in the year that Russia waged war on Ukraine
24 February 2023
BHRRC
OWRPO’s work includes raising awareness among workers about their rights, exposing labor rights violations and calling for redress, calling attention to dangerous working conditions, seeking justice for workers killed or injured, spotlighting pollution by oil companies and its impact on health, providing legal assistance to workers whose rights have been violated, calling for law reform, seeking public monitoring over large-scale oil projects, and anti-corruption activities.
Tue Nov 29 2022
Global Witness
Major international brands sourcing palm oil from Brazilian plantations linked to violence, torture and land fraud
26 September 2022
Global Witness
As missiles rained down on Ukraine in the days and weeks after Putin’s declaration of war on Ukraine, it was business as usual for some of the world’s biggest oil traders
11 April 2022
Global Witness
How an oil project linked to the Republic of Congo’s corrupt rulers was obtained by one of Africa’s richest men in questionable circumstances – imperilling climate-critical peatland forests
28 February 2020
Global Witness
America’s top agency regulating oil and gas extraction risks being gutted by a Trump appointee who received up to $2.1 million from oil companies
16 January 2019
Global Witness
A major oil deal struck by ExxonMobil with the Nigerian government is being probed by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a law enforcement agency that investigates high-level corruption.
24 June 2016
Global Witness
View the Testimony for Hearing “Resource Curse or Blessing: Africa’s Extractive Industries in a Time of Record Oil and Mineral Prices”
10 April 2015
Global Witness
European banks and investors are investing over €700 million in two companies that are helping fuel violence against the people of South Sudan
14 November 2023
Global Witness
More than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
23 September 2019
Global Witness
The world’s top two commodity traders Vitol and Glencore used middlemen notorious for their role in Brazil’s mammoth "Car Wash" bribery scandal, Global Witness investigation with Switzerland’s Public Eye reveals
08 November 2018