Beate Beller
@beatebeller.bsky.social
Views are my own. 🇦🇹 in 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 Human Rights & Climate
@GlobalWitness.org Former @Europarl_EN Alumna International Relations @UniLeiden @AberdeenUni
@GlobalWitness.org Former @Europarl_EN Alumna International Relations @UniLeiden @AberdeenUni
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🚨BREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week.
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
New data shows mega-pollution of companies still in scope of CSDDD
Even after intense lobbying by polluters and a vote to water down new EU corporate accountability laws, firms affected are still responsible for huge emissions
gwitness.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🚨BREAKING: 2 BILLION tonnes of emissions are at stake when the EU decides on climate laws this week.
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
Lobbying by big polluters like Shell, TotalEnergies + Exxon is trying to gut the laws.
The EU must not let them dodge accountability.
https://gwitness.org/47hFYJ3
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🌍 @globalwitness.org’s @beatebeller.bsky.social added: financial institutions “must not remain exempt from accountability for their impact on people and planet.”
October 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🌍 @globalwitness.org’s @beatebeller.bsky.social added: financial institutions “must not remain exempt from accountability for their impact on people and planet.”
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“The European Parliament must now show leadership by rolling back these damaging proposals and put people and the planet over corporate interests” @beatebeller.bsky.social
For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin...
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For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin...
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EU: New research suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights and environmental protection in face of EU rollback
New polling by Ipsos reveals that a large majority of people (75%) across 10 European countries think it is important that the European Union (EU) uphold its own environmental laws. The new survey of ...
amn.st
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“The European Parliament must now show leadership by rolling back these damaging proposals and put people and the planet over corporate interests” @beatebeller.bsky.social
For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin...
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For more info on the EU's planned rights rollback and poll results see: amn.st/eupublicopin...
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A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear:
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
Europeans demand stronger climate action and corporate accountability
Majority of Europeans want large companies to be held accountable for human rights and environmental harms in their value chains, according to a new poll
gwitness.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A major new poll by Ipsos, commissioned by Global Witness and Amnesty International surveyed citizens across 10 EU countries and the message is clear:
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
📢 Europeans want strong climate action and corporate accountability.
Read our analysis: https://gwitness.org/42iPUAn
www.politico.eu/article/wild...
What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules
What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules
Wildfires push forest destruction to 20-year high just as EU delays anti-deforestation rules
It comes as the European Union decided to delay new trade legislation to curb forest destruction worldwide.
www.politico.eu
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
www.politico.eu/article/wild...
What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules
What it should say: Wildfires push EU to accelerate its anti-deforestation rules
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📍 In Honduras, a father and son stood up to illegal logging and paid the ultimate price.
Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world.
🛑 This must end.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world.
🛑 This must end.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging
The country is the most deadly to be an environmental activist – and the brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández are the latest in a long line of violent acts against defender...
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📍 In Honduras, a father and son stood up to illegal logging and paid the ultimate price.
Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world.
🛑 This must end.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Their brutal deaths are a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by land and environmental defenders around the world.
🛑 This must end.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández highlight ongoing violence against defenders in Honduras. My colleague Laura Furones at @globalwitness.org explains why the country has the highest per capita killings of environmental defenders.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging
The country is the most deadly to be an environmental activist – and the brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández are the latest in a long line of violent acts against defender...
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández highlight ongoing violence against defenders in Honduras. My colleague Laura Furones at @globalwitness.org explains why the country has the highest per capita killings of environmental defenders.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Pollution : l’ONG Global Witness dénonce les rejets toxiques de Veolia dans une zone humide de Colombie
Pollution : l’ONG Global Witness dénonce les rejets toxiques de Veolia dans une zone humide de Colombie
Des employés d’une décharge gérée par la multinationale française ont été filmés en train de déverser des résidus liquides directement dans un cours d’eau. Cette pratique met en péril la santé des écosystèmes et des habitants de la région.
www.lemonde.fr
March 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Pollution : l’ONG Global Witness dénonce les rejets toxiques de Veolia dans une zone humide de Colombie
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- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands
A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaigners
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The French corporation’s actions risk causing serious health impacts including birth defects among local community, as EU plans to weaken law that would hold companies accountable for environmental damage. #CSDDD
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Footage shows Veolia pump pollutants into protected wetlands
French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia
globalwitness.org
March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The French corporation’s actions risk causing serious health impacts including birth defects among local community, as EU plans to weaken law that would hold companies accountable for environmental damage. #CSDDD
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French multinational Veolia alleged to be at the heart of a pollution scandal in Columbia, impacting workers their communities and the environment.Based on research of @globalwitness.org www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Company denies
For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org
For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org
Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands
A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaigners
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
French multinational Veolia alleged to be at the heart of a pollution scandal in Columbia, impacting workers their communities and the environment.Based on research of @globalwitness.org www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Company denies
For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org
For info on trade unions and Columbia justiceforcolombia.org
Von der Leyen’s attack on her own sustainability agenda is disgraceful.
www.politico.eu/article/most...
www.politico.eu/article/most...
Brussels confirms dramatic U-turn on corporate green rules
4 of 5 companies would be exempt from EU corporate sustainability reporting as part of Brussels’ anti-red tape drive.
www.politico.eu
February 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Von der Leyen’s attack on her own sustainability agenda is disgraceful.
www.politico.eu/article/most...
www.politico.eu/article/most...
Civil society and trade union protests outside the EU Commission today as we await the Omnibus. This proposal is a push for deregulation, particularly impacting the Green Deal. Recent leaks suggest the CSDDD may let companies escape responsibility for global human rights and environmental abuses.
February 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Civil society and trade union protests outside the EU Commission today as we await the Omnibus. This proposal is a push for deregulation, particularly impacting the Green Deal. Recent leaks suggest the CSDDD may let companies escape responsibility for global human rights and environmental abuses.
Our Global Witness investigation of TikTok and X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of elections on Sunday.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
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Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a
techcrunch.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Our Global Witness investigation of TikTok and X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of elections on Sunday.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
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Breaking: This is Caesar, the Syrian who smuggled thousnds of photos of people Assad killed under torture. He was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department in Military Police in Damascus, and whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act named after.
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Breaking: This is Caesar, the Syrian who smuggled thousnds of photos of people Assad killed under torture. He was the head of the Forensic Evidence Department in Military Police in Damascus, and whom the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act named after.
Big crowd of civil society and trade unions outside the European Commission to protest against corporate capture and deregulation. The looming Omnibus threatens to water down some hard-fought laws on corporate accountability and reporting. Proper public consultations or impact assessments? Absent!
February 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Big crowd of civil society and trade unions outside the European Commission to protest against corporate capture and deregulation. The looming Omnibus threatens to water down some hard-fought laws on corporate accountability and reporting. Proper public consultations or impact assessments? Absent!
As the EU threatens to cut back on the European Green Deal and commitments for big business, European companies continue to cause damage overseas. The European law on due diligence for large companies is in danger of being watered down further. #CSDDD
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Sunk costs: a mega-airport in the path of climate disaster | Global Witness
Flights from one of the world’s largest airport projects may be grounded within 30 years due to the risk of sinking land and rising sea levels.
www.globalwitness.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
As the EU threatens to cut back on the European Green Deal and commitments for big business, European companies continue to cause damage overseas. The European law on due diligence for large companies is in danger of being watered down further. #CSDDD
www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...