-
Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
-
Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
-
New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Rakesh Kalshian, India, is a former reporter for the weekly magazine Outlook India where he focused on the environment, a beat he has covered since 1991.
Rakesh Kalshian, India
He is currently a freelance journalist. Kalshian’s reports for Outlook India included examinations of the effects on India of global warming, the risks workers at the world’s largest shipbreaking yard in Gujarat face, and the endangerment of various forms of Indian wildlife. In January 1999, Kalshian investigated water politics between India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. He also wrote a chapter on global warming for Tough Terrain, a book published in 1999 by the Asia Pacific Mountain Network and the Panos Institute South Asia. Kalshian was a 1999-2000 Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
Facebook
Twitter
Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and get the latest from our in-depth investigations, articles, interviews, blogs, videos, and more.
Your support will help us bring you more investigations, articles, interviews and news related materials relevant to U.S. politics and politics abroad.
Do you have important information for an investigative project? A question or comment? Pass it on to the Center.
- Investigations |
- PaperTrail Blog
- © 2012, The Center for Public Integrity®. All Rights Reserved. Read our privacy policy and the terms under which this service is provided to you.