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An underground network of suspected sex traffickers has taken refuge in the UAE, anti-trafficking activists and officials say. A new installment of #TraffickingInc, an ICIJ-led reporting collab, exposes broken systems that allow sexual slavery to thrive. 🧵bit.ly/43EO0IT
2/ Emirati authorities say any suggestion that the UAE “tolerates human trafficking or that it has little regard to the victims of this heinous crime is utterly false,” describing such allegations as “baseless and without foundation.” #TraffickingInc bit.ly/43EO0IT
3/ Sex trafficking is an open secret in the UAE, reporting by ICIJ and @Reuters found. #TraffickingInc bit.ly/43EO0IT 
This year, ICIJ published more investigations than ever before – some were based on new leaks, others responded to unfolding global news events, and many dug into patterns and topics to emerge from past ICIJ projects.
🧵Here’s a recap of our top stories:
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🧵Here’s a recap of our top stories:
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When Russia’s war on Ukraine sparked an unprecedented campaign of sanctions against allies of Vladimir Putin, ICIJ reporters mined the #PandoraPapers and other offshore leaks to uncover secret money maneuvers used to secure the wealth of oligarchs and more.bit.ly/3x7MykS
ICIJ also finished updating the #OffshoreLeaks Database with structured data extracted from the 11.9 million records that make up the #PandoraPapers — allowing the public to explore companies and people that use (and sometimes abuse) tax havens.
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Commentary in The Hill highlights "startling" #TraffickingInc reporting by @NBCNews @ARIJNetwork @ICIJorg @washingtonpost
US contractors that commit human trafficking must no longer slip through the cracks
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US contractors that commit human trafficking must no longer slip through the cracks
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"This kind of investigative reporting is so vital. It sheds a light on unacceptable complicity in forced labor. . . . Americans ought to be outraged that human trafficking continues to occur under the watch of the U.S. govt." 2/
Filipino workers in a US military base in Diego Garcia, an island south of Maldives in the Indian Ocean, are bearing the brunt of a minimum wage dispute between the Philippine government and their employer.
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Workers said they feared losing their jobs if they head home before the wage dispute is resolved.
The @DMWPHL also accused Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR), one of the largest US defense contractors, of “emotional blackmail.”
The @DMWPHL also accused Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR), one of the largest US defense contractors, of “emotional blackmail.”
The DMW said KBR prevents its workers from going home to their families “unless they sign an extension of their contract based on the old minimum wage rate.”
KBR is the only contractor employing OFWs in Diego Garcia that didn’t comply with the adjusted rates.
KBR is the only contractor employing OFWs in Diego Garcia that didn’t comply with the adjusted rates.
NEW: @ICIJorg 's #TraffickingInc project has launched! Here's the first investigation: Abuses on US bases in Persian Gulf ensnare legions of migrant workers icij.org/investigations… with @agustin_ICIJ @MollyBoigon @lehrennbc @ckubeNBC @annaschecter @strickdc @NBCNews
Here's the webpage for #TraffickingInc @ICIJorg, more investigations to follow in the coming months: icij.org/investigations…
Nearly 28 million people around the globe are estimated to be trapped in jobs so oppressive that they amount to modern slavery.
#TraffickingInc, a new ICIJ reporting collab, examines what is said to be the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise. 🧵bit.ly/3FpMW2s
#TraffickingInc, a new ICIJ reporting collab, examines what is said to be the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise. 🧵bit.ly/3FpMW2s
2/ #TraffickingInc uncovers the people, companies, and business practices that draw profit from different forms of coerced labor across borders — and the well-known employers and entities that human trafficking is linked to. bit.ly/3DhXk9y
3/ First up in #Trafficking Inc., — an investigation co-reported by ICIJ, @washingtonpost, @NBCNews and @ARIJNetwork reveals that many foreign workers for defense contractors on US military bases in the Gulf are trapped by abusive employment practices. bit.ly/3FiS601
