Best Investigative Stories in French In 2024: Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal
The investigations that caught our eye this year display the diversity that exists in the world of Francophone watchdog reporting. We have seen stories in a wide variety of formats,…
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Best Investigative Stories in French In 2024: Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal
The investigations that caught our eye this year display the diversity that exists in the world of Francophone watchdog reporting. We have seen stories in…
National Human Rights Records: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process To Safely Evaluate
The United Nations process for evaluating national human rights records is long and a little complex, but nevertheless offers valuable material for journalists to use…
Tracking Organized Crime’s Dirty Money and Illicit Operations: Tips From Latin American Journalists
July 21, 2025 • All, Corruption
Illicit drug money is only a fraction of what Latin America’s multibillion-dollar crime conglomerates deposit in tax havens around the world. Illegal gold mining, unsanctioned…
Using FOIA to Track Trans Rights in Trump’s Crazy America
July 21, 2025 • All, Human Rights And Civil Liberties
To track how US President Donald Trump’s executive orders affecting transgender people are being enforced across the country, the Trans Journalists Association and the nonprofit,…
Bringing an Investigation on Hidden Clandestine Landing Strips in the Peruvian Amazon to the Stage
Journalist Elizabeth Salazar arrived at an isolated Indigenous community of the Kakataibo ethnic group in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon one night in 2024…
Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Deadly Fall
July 2, 2025 • All, Investigations
When 54 years of Assad dynasty rule in Syria came to a somewhat abrupt end, after a series of armed rebel offensives culminated in the…
Art as Activism: Transformative Creative Power Fueling Change
From São Paulo to Sydney, Lagos to London, artists have long interwoven creativity with protest. In every era, art has echoed the struggles of the…
Tribal Land Evictions: An Investigative Timeline of Tribal Land Evictions from India And Other Lands Without Justice
May 15, 2025 • All, Indigenous Rights
The Silent War on Tribal Land Evictions The Hasdeo Aranya forest, spanning 1,700 square kilometers across Chhattisgarh, India, is home to over 5,000 Gond and…
Windrush Reparations: Britain’s Long March Toward Overdue Justice
May 3, 2025 • All, Social Justice And Inequality
This is the story of how Windrush scandals rocked Britain and why Windrush Reparations came into existence. June 22, 1948 – the arrival of the Empire…