Farmers protests across Europe seized headlines and hijacked the political agenda. But once the action moved from the streets to the negotiating table, who spoke for them? We profile power brokers claiming to represent farmers🧵lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Not only have we identified waves of desert dumps by North African countries targeting Black refugees, we managed to trace such practices to European funding.

Massive investigation which took a year of painstaking work from my colleagues, it sheds light on the shocking reality of the EU funded racial violence by the states of🇲🇦 🇲🇷 🇹🇳 🇱🇾 where black people are being rounded up and dumped in desert areas.

Europe is giving huge sums of money to N African countries each year in an effort to curb migration

Our year-long investigation reveals this money is being used to indiscriminately round up Black people & dump them in desert areas, sometimes leaving them for dead

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Press freedom holds power to account by scrutinising gov. policy and challenging the status quo. To celebrate #WPFD here are 5 articles that do just that🧵

1/ This investigation from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on how the UK’s carer visa prevents workers from reporting abuse
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'Maggot infestations' , ‘slurry pollution’ and 'illegal pig incinerations' found at England's megafarms Lucie Heath @andrew_wasley @tbij inews.co.uk/news/maggot-in…

In today’s The Washington Post, with record-breaking migration, comes record-breaking death. A Texas border county has struggled to keep up.

Our dispatch w/colleagues Marina Dias & Daniele Volpe, who made images along with the amazing Jabin Botsford

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Inspired by BIG LOCAL NEWS and Knight Foundation The Associated Press data team in the US and The Bureau Local and the BBC Shared Data Unit in the UK, the Lighthouse Reports data team had been had been seeking out a high-value data set full of opportunities for important, localized accountability stories. A 🧵

A story that began with a disturbing anecdote from an African reporter, laughed at in a Dutch job centre, ended with @LHReports biggest data investigation into structural discrimination in Europe. A thread 🧵
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“They shaved my eyebrows and my eyelashes, why did this happen? What about human rights? Who's gonna make it up? For me? For my mental suffering?”

Mustafa survived detention and torture by the Tareq Bin Zeyad, a Libyan militia. He’s asked us to share this video.

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Europe’s xenophobic politics ignore coming economic decline. Millions of skilled jobs go unfilled but ½ of educated migrants work below their skill level. @LHReports Financial Times EL PAÍS Unbias the News used newly accessible data to investigate brain waste lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Hemos analizado con Lighthouse Reports y Financial Times un millón de entrevistas de la mayor encuesta laboral europea para ver los efectos del 'brain waste'.

España desperdicia el talento extranjero: uno de cada dos inmigrantes trabaja por debajo de su cualificación.

España es uno de los países europeos con peores resultados en la integración de trabajadores inmigrantes cualificados. @LHReports &  EL PAÍS  han utilizado datos para investigar este “desperdicio de cerebros” (brain waste)
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Investigative reporting opportunity promo: Lighthouse Reports has a new fellowship program, 6 months, paid, 3 different positions lighthousereports.com/lighthouse-rep…

Many, many months of work went into this Lighthouse Reports investigation. It was a real team effort.

Front page of tomorrow's The Observer. Pick up a copy to read more.

‘Stop the Boats’ became Sink the Boats. Unique footage obtained by Lighthouse Reports & partners shows how France copies dangerous tactics used by Greece & Libya to stop refugee boats in the Channel

NEW: Unseen footage reveals UK-funded French police are carrying out violent interceptions of small boats in the Channel

Lighthouse Reports The Observer Le Monde DER SPIEGEL find aggressive tactics include flooding, ramming & stabbing dinghies as UK mounts pressure to 'stop the boats'

Strongly recommend you take 17mins to watch this devastating film chronicling how 40 men were left to burn to death in a migrant detention centre at the US-Mexico border 1yr ago

Incredible work by Lighthouse Reports' Melissa del Bosque Jack Sapoch Monica C. Camacho Klaas van Dijken & partners

Almost a year ago, 40 men were left to die in a cell during a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The deaths came as Mexico’s migrant detention system expands with US-backing. Lighthouse Reports El Paso Matters & @LaVerdadJZ reveal what really happened that night

A The Bureau of Investigative Journalism & CitizensAdvice investigation shines a light on how migrant care workers in the UK are being trapped in exploitative jobs by their visa, unable to report employers without putting their visas at risk. buff.ly/4cbVuIc

By Emiliano Mellino, Vicky Gayle, Charles Boutaud, hajar meddah