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From OnlyFans to OnlyScams

  • Exploitation
  • Human Rights
  • Technology

BARCELONA/BRATISLAVA/BERLIN/LISBON/COPENHAGEN/PRAGUE-This investigation focuses on the winners and losers in the online sex work revolution, where people can buy digital subscriptions to explicit content. A pioneer of this model is OnlyFans, a booming platform whose users spent $6.6 billion in 2023 alone.

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Indestructible

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights

DONETSK - As a young reporter, Arnaud De Decker toured Ukraine, a country torn apart by the biggest war on the European continent since World War II.

The surrogacy business in Europe

  • Healthcare
  • Human Rights
  • Social affairs

ATHENS - The surrogacy landscape in Europe reveals a complex interplay of ethical issues and varied legislative frameworks as the demand for surrogacy services continues to grow in the Global North. This investigation explores the surrogacy practices in Spain, Greece, Ukraine, and Georgia, highlighting their distinct legal environments and market conditions.

Photo: Maria Volkova

Inside Europe’s AI Border Fortress

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Technology

ATHENS -The European Union is deploying AI-driven technologies along its borders in an to attempt to control migration flows, raising legal and ethical concerns about the impact on migrants' rights. While these systems are promoted as improving efficiency and security, they have raised concerns about privacy violations and restrictions on the right to asylum, concerns that this research confirms.

Camera at refugee camp on Samos

Calling Gaza

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Migration

GAZA - Nadia AlHassanat was born in Gaza during the First Intifada. In her twenties, she fled her conservative family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Today, she has been living in Belgium for eight years. The only person she stayed in touch with by phone is her older sister Fatma, who remains in Gaza with her two children.

Amhara: Guerrilla War and Human Rights Abuse

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Politics

BAHIR DAR - For the past 19 months, Ethiopia’s Amhara region has been devastated by a conflict between federal forces and the Fano militia, which seeks full control of Amhara territory. 

Complain Like a German

  • Human Rights
  • Industry
  • Work

BERLIN - The new German Supply Chain Act requires all German companies to ensure that human rights are respected throughout their global supply chains. This means no child labour, no forced labour and no exploitation. But is this really the case?

Worker in Leoni factory in Serbia, producing car cables

Turkey’s Deportation Machine

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Politics

ISTANBUL/PARIS/UTRECHT - The European Union has helped Turkey to deport Syrian and Afghan refugees to situations of hardship, danger and even death through a system of arrest, detention and removal that has developed over time, this investigation has found.

Outsourcing Asylum: Rwanda's Role in Europe's Refugees

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

BERLIN/ROME- As more and more EU countries are looking into asylum agreements with Rwanda or other third countries, this investigation sheds light into what is already happening in Rwanda after the MoU signed with the UK government.

The Open Veins of Europe

  • Environment
  • Equality
  • Human Rights

MADRID / ONLINE - The Open Veins of Europe is an exchange programme for 29 journalists from Latin America and Europe, designed as a fellowship to explore the environmental issues that connect both regions.