TI’s paper The Role of Business in Fighting Impunity and Corruption to Protect Environmental Defenders calls on companies to champion transparency, accountability, and human rights to help protect them

This paper documents how corruption—including bribery, regulatory capture and legal harassment—drives violence, intimidation and impunity against environmental defenders and shows that private-sector misconduct does more than accompany; it helps enable those attacks. It then presents a roadmap with recommendations for businesses (strengthened anti-corruption due diligence, transparency of beneficial ownership, meaningful community engagement), policymakers (mandatory human-rights and corruption due-diligence laws…