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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Resources
Reporting on Migration in the Gulf: A Revised and Expanded GIJN Guide
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There are 23 million migrant workers in the Gulf, but reporting in this region presents a series of unique and often difficult challenges for investigative journalists due to widespread restrictions on press freedom and threats to reporters’ security. GIJN and Migrants-Rights.org have collaborated to update this bilingual guide to educate journalists on best practices, tools, and country-specific resources for covering the subject, all against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
forced labor
Reporting on Migration in the Gulf: A Revised and Expanded GIJN Guide
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This updated and expanded guide was written in cooperation with Migrant-Rights.org. Illustrations are by Marcelle Louw.
forced labor
Chapter 15 – Reporting Guide for United Arab Emirates
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These tips were provided by Yasin Kakande, Ugandan journalist deported for covering migrant worker issues in the United Arab Emirates. Media Environment
A journalist seeking to write about human trafficking in the UAE has to understand that any writing seen as contrary to the government narrative is a punishable offense.