Organized Crime Guide
Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking
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GIJN’s guide to investigating organized crime in Asia’s Golden Triangle. This chapter focuses on human trafficking in the regio
How They Did It
How We Turned Years of Reporting on the High Seas into a Podcast: Tips from Ian Urbina
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The Outlaw Ocean Project — a nonprofit journalism organization that reports on the “watery two-thirds” of our planet — used material from several years of investigations on the high seas to create a new, seven-part podcast.
Tools & Techniques
Best Practices for Staying Safe While Investigating Human Trafficking
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At a JournalismFund.eu webinar, journalists Annie Kelly and Ian Urbina spoke of their experiences documenting human trafficking around the world.
How They Did It
How an Award-Winning, Cross-Border Project Investigated on the Open Ocean
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Fourteen newsrooms and independent journalists from 13 countries collaborated on the Oceans, Inc. project, to uncover stories about illegal fishing and forced slavery on the South China Sea and the oceans near Antarctica. Their cross-border reporting won the 2022 SOPA Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.
Resources
Forced Labor and Fair Recruitment: A Toolkit for Journalists
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The International Labour Organization has published a reporting toolkit to help investigative journalists cover forced labor, human trafficking, and other worker abuse issues.
Investigative Reporting in the Middle East
Reporter Katie McQue’s Tips for Covering Migrant Workers in Arab Gulf States
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Katie McQue, a British freelance journalist that spent five years reporting from Dubai covering human rights and migration alongside her “business” beats of energy, healthcare, and finance, speaks to GIJN about her work and the best practices reporters can adopt when covering forced labor and human trafficking in the region.
Research
Introduction: GIJN Guide to Reporting on Migration in the Gulf Arab Countries
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INTRODUCTION
More than 23 million migrant workers live in the six Middle Eastern countries that make up the political and economic alliance known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Unfortunately, abuse of these workers is widespread, mostly due to the legal framework of the kafala sponsorship system — the legal framework defining the relationship between migrant workers and their employers — which can result in contract violations and dangerous working conditions, benefit unscrupulous traffickers, and cause discord among brokers and employers.
GIJC21
Asian Journalism Collaborations Break New Ground
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Cross-border collaborations allow newsrooms to pool resources and overcome financial hurdles. On the fourth day of GIJC21, journalists based in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, and Malaysia offered tips for conducting successful collaborative reporting projects.
GIJC21
Video Resources for Investigating in Asia/Pacific
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To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on reporting tips and collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region and insights for reporting in China.
covid
Chapter 2 – COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf
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While the Gulf states have largely reopened their key sectors, migrants remain vulnerable to employment insecurity and exploitation. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many of the pre-existing issues that migrant workers face in the Gulf region, including non-payment of wages, exclusion from social protections, and limited access to healthcare.