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Investigative Fund
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A newsroom for independent journalists.
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@antillaview
Susan Antilla
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A must-read by @grivlin How Wall Street drove public pensions into crisis and pocketed billions in fees interc.pt/2R3lnPL by @grivlin @theIFUND @theintercept
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@theintercept
The Intercept
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Public pensions squander tens of billions of dollars each year on risky, poor-performing alternative investments like hedge funds. (in partnership with @theIFUND) interc.pt/2CVbW1N
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@FJS
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"I spent a few weeks with Valentina, who invites survivors of abuse into her home and helps connect them with shelters, police, and public services. @theIFUND gave me the resources to spend three weeks in California, which was critical to building trust." refinery29.com/en-us/latina-u…
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@theIFUND
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Ghost offices on the small island provide legal but questionable means of siphoning tax dollars away from poor countries and into the pockets of the global elite. With @ForeignPolicy: foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/18/afr…
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@NewsMatch
NewsMatch
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Excited to announce that the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation - which supports investigative journalism around the country - will join #NewsMatch this year as a partner with $250K in support. goo.gl/HCWZQP pic.twitter.com/gyGnziMRsN
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@theIFUND
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Don't forget to sign up to our newsletter! Our investigations will be delivered straight to your inbox: theinvestigativefund.org/subscribe
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@theIFUND
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Read our full investigation and watch our documentary here: theinvestigativefund.org/investigation/…
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One US adoptive family is heartbroken that the children they adopted have families in Uganda who want them. “We set out to do what’s right and ended up being child traffickers,” the father said. 10/10
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Meanwhile, the U.S. accrediting agency responsible for regulating adoption agencies says they don't have the capacity to do in-country investigations, while the U.S. State Department, which does, says it relies on its accreditors to monitor agencies. 9/
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Journeys of the Heart was involved in 5 of 12 cases we investigated. Tabitha Abbo is still fighting to keep her 3-year-old son, Solomon, who was adopted by an American couple in a controversial process.
“I get so fierce that even a leopard is tame compared to me,” she said. 8/
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“Some wanted their things fast,” the orphanage director said, adding that the Americans would tell her, “Barbara, if you need something, you tell me. If you need something to make this thing fast, you tell me.” 7/
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We discovered forged paperwork, missing documentation, and a confession of bribery from a Kampala orphanage director associated with the Oregon-based adoption agency, Journeys of the Heart. 6/
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The concept of “adoption” in the Western sense—one that involves the forfeiting of parental rights—is so alien that there’s no equivalent word for it in the local languages. Some parents believed their children were missing, or dead. 5/
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In 12 international adoptions from Uganda to the US, we located the biological families of each of the children, all of whom said either that they'd been tricked into signing away their parental rights, or that the paperwork had been forged. youtube.com/watch?v=zWVRP9… 4/
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Despite a 2016 change to the adoption law to prevent foreigners from leaving in a short timeframe with Ugandan children, we discovered that it's still easy for "paper orphans" to be created. 3/
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In Uganda, unscrupulous brokers, weak institutions, and inadequate reforms have led hundreds of children to be separated from their families in recent years. 2/
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In an investigative documentary for @AJFaultLines, and a cover story in @thenation, Investigative Fund reporter @AnnaCavell probes the seamy underbelly of international adoptions to the U.S. from Uganda. theinvestigativefund.org/investigation/… 1/
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@AJFaultLines
Fault Lines
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Has international adoption become a demand-driven industry? We teamed up with @thenation and @theIFUND to investigate how the desires of Americans has impacted families in Uganda. Full film: bit.ly/2RHBFz5 pic.twitter.com/zaqpeiqxxN
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@theIFUND
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Subscribe to @VQR today! Use code CULTUREOFNO and get a 25% discount. vqronline.org/store/subscrip…
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.@justinevdl follows the story of a Syrian refugee with a seemingly airtight case—a Christian who fled persecution by Islamic extremists. Yet, he, too was confronted by what one expert calls “the culture of no.” Read our full story with @VQR here: vqronline.org/reporting-arti… 6/6
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