Russia’s invasion of Ukraine paved the way for the imposition of a new financial architecture designed to facilitate the "Russification" of occupied territories. Our partners at LexCollective submitted a landmark filing to the International Criminal Court, demonstrating the role of Russian financiers in enabling illegal occupation. FIND, alongside the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group, B4Ukraine, and KSE Institute, gathered evidence to support the filing. Our collective work may contribute to formal charges against individuals complicit in crimes against humanity and war crimes in occupied Kherson Oblast. FIND continues to examine illicit financial flows linked to international crimes, to support future accountability efforts.

The unchecked growth of the targeted surveillance industry has enabled authoritarian repression and serious human rights abuses, threatening journalists, human rights defenders and civil society. With support from the Spyware Accountability Initiative, FIND provides investigative support and capacity building to CSOs seeking accountability. Our research has uncovered corporate and financial networks enabling the global deployment of surveillance by oppressive regimes. We have contributed to high impact investigations with partners including Lighthouse Reports, WAV, SMEX and Amnesty Tech; supported litigation in EU states; and bolstered the ability of CSOs across Africa and South Asia to identify and tackle harmful targeted surveillance.

Areas of biodiversity are facing unprecedented destruction. As a steering committee member of the Transnational Legal Coalition, FIND plays a crucial role in challenging global supply chains and economic systems driving this destruction and related human rights abuses. Along with GLAN, ECCHR, King's College London, and Mighty Earth, the coalition uses coordinated transnational legal action, with its first focus on the Brazilian Amazon. FIND’s specific contribution is to unpick the financial networks and corporations complicit in these violations. Read more about the TLC’s launch at COP30, and explore the coalition’s work and approach on our website.

First Nations across Canada face ongoing attacks on their sovereignty, rooted in a colonialism still embedded in the legal, political and economic context. These attacks have resulted in the erosion of self-governance, territorial destruction and irreparable cultural harm. Since 2022, FIND has worked with an indigenous-led human rights organisation and representatives from five nations, thanks to the support of the Roddick and Bertha Foundations. FIND’s work includes genealogical research to verify community-held knowledge and the creation of digital archives of truth. These resources are supporting the nations’ campaigns to protect indigenous sovereignty, collective rights, knowledge systems and cultural identity.

Environmental harm and labour exploitation in global agribusiness supply chains are deeply interconnected, yet responses to these challenges are frequently developed in isolation. In Brazil, for example, deforestation and modern slavery are both integral to cattle supply chains. With the generous support of the Samworth Foundation, FIND has started a three-year project addressing the intersection of these harms. Through strategy development, in-depth investigation, capacity building and access to research databases, we aim to support civil society efforts to hold agribusinesses accountable for environmental destruction and human rights abuses that profit from harm.