GlobalWitness.org is a organization to prevent abuse of resource-related conflict
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Global Witness
Description
Global Witness is one of few non-governmental investigative organisations working to expose the link between natural resource exploitation and human rights abuses. We operate in areas where environmentally destructive trade is funding conflict or human rights violations. We collect the evidence and use it to achieve long-term change.
Global Witness believes that in many cases, the environment is linked to the seemingly separate issues of poverty, conflict and human rights. Too often, reconstruction and development of countries emerging from long periods of conflict is hindered by extensive corruption. Individuals or organisations that carry out illegal trade in natural resources are depriving the country's Treasury from receiving much-needed revenue, and as a result, the country remains unstable. This instability makes it easier for the perpetrators of the corruption to continue to exploit the country's resources for their own personal gain, and has a direct correlation to human rights abuses. The people often suffer from intimidation, poverty and deprivation.
Revenue from trade in natural resources is a major source of funding of conflict and human rights abuses, and this link is central to Global Witness' work. We seek to gather and disseminate information regarding environmental exploitation and its social, ecological and economic effects, in order that the links are understood by those who are in a position to effect positive change. Targets for Global Witness' information include governments, NGOs, international donors, development organisations, the media and the general public.
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Related Domains
- Angola
- Blood Diamonds
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Charles Taylor
- Conflict Diamonds
- Corruption
- De Beers
- Deforestation
- Democratic Republic Of Congo
- Diamond Trade
- Dos Santos
- Drc
- Export Credit Agencies
- Fatal Transactions
- Garden Furniture
- Human Rights Abuse
- Human Rights Abuses
- Human Rights And Liberties
- Khmer Rouge
- Kimberley Process
- Kimberly Process
- Liberia
- Mugabe
- Natural Resources
- Ruf
- Sierra Leone
- Transparency
- Unita
- Zimbabwe
- Human Rights and Liberties
- Securities And Exchange Commission