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In this preface to GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad discusses her own personal experience as a Yazidi survivor of conflict-related sexual violence and the value of investigative journalism as a tool that can help uncover atrocities and push for accountability.
This chapter of GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, written by military expert Tony Wilson, offers an overview of command structures and their roles in holding leaders accountable for war crimes.
The little-known but powerful Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system considers high stakes cases between companies and national governments, which often take years to resolve and impose extensive legal and other fees. Here, investigative reporter Claire Provost argues that we need more reporting to expose the impact this system has on our democracies.
Chapter five of GIJN’s Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges looks at finding alternative sources of country emissions data.
Chapter six of GIJN’s Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges offers a glossary of common terms and acronyms used by the United Nations, academics, and climate activists.
Chapter four of GIJN’s Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges looks at how UN evaluations of country plans provide insight into which promises are being kept.
The introduction and table of contents chapter for GIJN’s new Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges.
This guide was written by GIJN Resource Center Senior Advisor Toby McIntosh. Editing by Nikolia Apostolou, Alexa van Sickle, and Reed Richardson.
As co-founder and inaugural executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, David Kaplan has led the organization from an initiative with a few hundred followers in 2012 to a “network of networks” spanning some 244 groups in 90 countries. WAN-IFRA sought his insights on the future of investigative journalism in a divided world.