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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
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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
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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
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan, is the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph of London.
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He also writes for several Pakistani newspapers and magazines, in addition to regular broadcasts on TV and radio stations around the world, including the BBC World Service, ABC Australia, Radio France International, and German Radio. Rashid has written extensively on the international competition for oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia, China, and Iran, on the drug and smuggling trades, and on Islamic fundamentalism in that region. Rashid has written or co-authored several books, including The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism, on the breakup of the Soviet Union from the perspective of Central Asia, Fundamentalism Reborn: Afghanistan and the Taliban, and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. In 2001, Rashid was awarded the Nisar Osmani Award for Courage in Journalism for his widely acclaimed study of the Taliban.
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