The US sanctions four Chinese officials responsible for Uighur internment camps, including Zhu Hailun, the author of the leaked documents revealed by @ICIJorg
Here’s our profile of Zhu Hailun, who the US Treasury sanctioned for having “established the policies and procedures for managing these detention camps.”
He was the right-hand man of Xinjiang governor Chen Quanguo
“We shall load our guns, draw our swords from their sheaths, throw hard punches and relentlessly beat, and strike hard without flinching at terrorists,” Zhu once told Chinese soldiers sent to put down ethnic unrest in Xinjiang
The company is funding research on “food shaming,” using anti-diet arguments to fight federal regulation, and showering giveaways on influencers who tout its cereals with the slogan #DerailtheShame washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…
The anti-diet movement began as an effort to combat weight bias and disordered eating.
But now, most dietitian influencers who use anti-diet language on social media are also paid to promote products by the food industry, our analysis found
NEW: The multi-billion dollar food industry is shaping the eating habits of a new generation by paying dietitians to push products and messages on social media.
But industry has paid dietitian influencers for posts encouraging viewers to eat more sugar & candy, or use unproven supplements - messages that run counter to decades of scientific evidence washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…
Other sponsored posts dismissed warnings from health authorities like the WHO.
In a campaign by a soda industry trade group, dietitians said WHO findings on aspartame - including that it is “possibly carcinogenic” - were “fear mongering” and “clickbait”
More than 100 world leaders are pledging at #COP26 to end deforestation by 2030.
It’s a bold promise, but one that so far doesn’t address a crucial element of the threat to forests exposed in our @OCCRP investigation yesterday: state corruption (thread) occrp.org/en/investigati…
First, the good news: leaders of countries representing 85% of forests are promising action, backed by more than $19 billion in funding
That includes Brazil, Indonesia and the DRC, which are home to most of the world’s rainforests bbc.com/news/science-e…
The bad news is that we’ve seen this movie before – and a similar agreement in 2014 turned out to be nothing but hot air.
NEW: Nicaragua is losing its forests faster than any other country in the world – an ecological disaster fueled by corruption in its forestry agency & enabled by the ruling Ortega family
If you've read about Nicaragua this year, it's probably about how dictator Daniel Ortega is violently crushing opposition ahead of this week's election.
More fallout from #ParadisePapers: a 150+ page report from the Commerce Dept inspector general reveals it investigated Wilbur Ross for years after the project's revelations in Nov 2017.
It found that he breached federal ethics rules in several ways...
The findings include glaring omissions in his financial disclosures.
Our story below for @ICIJorg found that Ross retained a stake in Navigator Holdings, a shipping company that did business w Putin cronies, through a chain of offshore entities.
The inspector general found that Ross also held more than 16,000 direct shares in Navigator that he completely omitted from his financial disclosures when he took office.
In Peru, the US gold dealer Kaloti Metals & Logistics bought tons of gold from Peruvian companies investigated for money laundering & illegal mining, setting off alarms in 3 big banks