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Two NGOs have filed a complaint against French energy giant TotalEnergies for "complicity in war crimes" for allegedly helping fuel Russian planes that have bombed Ukraine, according to French media reports.

Colombia's Congress has ratified the Escazu agreement to protect the environment, the government said late on Monday, paving the way to provide greater protection to environmentalists across the Andean country.

Corporate bonds intended to inject liquidity into markets profited companies engaged in deforestation

The French Transport Minister has called for an investigation into whether French oil giant TotalEnergies was involved in supplying jet fuel to the Russian military through a local joint venture.

Global Witness said Facebook had approved adverts which promoted the wrong election date and false voting methods

Facebook failed to detect blatant 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 describes as “alarming.” The advertisements contained false information about the country’s upcoming election, such as…

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.”

Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove

Off the Suffolk coast, industrial-scale transfers of Russian crude reveal a major hole in efforts to squeeze the Kremlin, Ben Chapman writes