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The High Risks of Documenting Mexico’s Disappeared
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Missing Persons, a Hidden Tragedy
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have disappeared due to conflict, disaster and crime. Many are never heard from again.
Cuba’s LGTBI Community Demands Change
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Global Voices: Latin America & the Caribbean
Highlights from IWPR’s Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in Latin America (CAPIR).
IWPR beneficiaries from the Venezuelan Information Coalition, C-Informa, published a series of articles about the disinformation propagated during recent elections.
Media outlets from our investigative project in Central America collaborated in a cross-border investigation in coordination with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Focos (El Salvador), No-Ficción (Guatemala), and ContraCorriente (Honduras) revealed how funds from a regional development bank were used to fund corrupt practices in authoritarian governments as well as environmental destruction.
Focos also published an investigation about abuses of power and multiple acts of sexual violence committed with apparent impunity by a navy captain in the port of Puerto El Triunfo.
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“Justice is Costly, but Also Priceless.”
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Cuba’s LGTBI Community Demands Change
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