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Across Borders, Advancing Justice: The Transnational Movement to End FGM in West Africa

Across Borders, Advancing Justice examines how survivor-led advocacy, grassroots organising, legal action and cross-border solidarity are driving the movement to end FGM in West Africa.

Commissioned by Purposeful and written by the Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC), the publication traces the strategies, legal victories and movement-building shaping change across the region. Asking what becomes possible when resistance is shared across communities, movements and borders.

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Following US Christian Right Spending in Africa: A Practical Guide

US Christian Right groups have made historic investments in Africa. We have been tracking these for years – and recently shared newly-updated data with The Associated Press. You can find our dated dataset here along with a How To Guide on how to follow this spending yourself.
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Aiding Executions?: How Aid Donors and the UN Enable the Death Penalty for Drug Offences

Developed in partnership with Harm Reduction International (HRI), this report follows the money behind international aid funding for drug control programmes in countries that retain the death penalty for drug-related offences.
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Tracking anti-trans hate speech online in Europe

We conducted a survey of trans content creators and a programmatic analysis of social media comments, to examine the extent of anti-trans hate speech online in Europe.
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Big Tech Cash for the Backlash

Big Tech’s influence goes beyond platforms, shaping global issues through hidden financial flows.
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Until Everybody is Free

Young African feminists still win victories in an increasingly hostile climate.
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The Feminist Investigative Journalism Handbook

The handbook shares case studies from investigations that expand on innovative ways to tell stories and how we can identify valuable stories for the audiences we serve.
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Inside the US Christian Right's Spending Boom in Africa

US Christian Right groups have significantly increased their Africa spending since 2019, new analysis shows
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Etsy's Business with Illegal Settlements

This report exposes how the online platform Etsy profits from shops based in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
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The Active but Underfunded Role Young Women and Girls Play in Crises

This report reveals that less than 2% of total humanitarian assistance in 2022 went to projects tagged in the OECD’s database as having gender equality as their ‘principal’ objective.
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International Aid for Palestine

Western aid donors disproportionately cut their aid to Palestine in the decade before the current war, while increasing these flows globally.
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Progressive Cash for the Anti-LGBTQI Backlash?

This publication revealed a staggering number of connections between aid donors and anti-LGBTQI groups involved in pushing for an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda.
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