Supported projects

BERLIN / AMSTERDAM / PARIS / MADRID – Reports and video documentation show police violence, free speech crackdowns, and military-style force against protesters. This investigation examines how law enforcement responded to pro-Palestinian solidarity protests in four major European cities.

MADRID - The lack of a unified system for identifying shipwreck victims in the Mediterranean leads to inconsistent procedures, long waits for families, and many unidentified bodies. This investigation follows families in Greece, Italy, and Spain as they navigate the painful aftermath of shipwrecks, from the initial tragedy to the final act of mourning.

PARIS - 'Missing: Their Loved Ones, Our Borders' is a cross-border investigative project focusing on migrants who have disappeared at Europe's external borders.

BRČKO - An investigation into the chilling circumstances surrounding the only professional photograph to capture the act of execution during the Bosnian War in the former Yugoslavia.

BRATISLAVA/PRAGUE - The project "Two States, One Common Injustice: Uncovering the Legacy of Coercive Sterilisation of Roma Women" focused on investigating the different legal approaches to involuntary sterilisation of Roma women in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The research confirmed that although coercive sterilisation took place on the territory of one state, the legislation dealing with compensation for victims was different.

GHENT - In 2024, COPS, the elite team of police zone Ghent, was deployed several times against non-violent activists. Experts are concerned as the unit is increasingly being used for interventions against activists. As a result, the line between counterterrorism and interventions against activists sometimes becomes very thin and the proportionality and subsidiarity principles of the police are compromised.

GENOA - This investigative project uncovers the various factors that lead to increasing numbers of inmates taking their own lives by systematically exploring how different prison environments operate.

PRAGUE - One in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15 – a total of 62 million women in Europe. The Istanbul Convention, a treaty aimed at preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, should help with the situation.

DAMASCUS - Trapped in the dusty cells of northeastern Syria are thousands of foreign IS fighters, all having come with one goal: to establish an Islamic caliphate. They come from 50 countries such as Iraq and Lebanon, as well as France, Britain and Belgium. Five years after the fall of IS, they are prisoners in a legal no-man's land, often without charge or trial, written off by their home countries.

BARCELONA / THE HAGUE / ROME - Governments across Europe use predictive algorithms in courts, prisons and police stations.