Investigations

- Investigations
- Aid and Policy
- 21 July 2017
Aid credibility at stake as donors haggle over reporting rules

Donors report billions of spending at home as "aid" - and some want to expand the loophole
- Investigations
- Aid and Policy
- 17 July 2017
Inside the ‘glaringly dysfunctional’ UN mission in Myanmar

While the UN appears split in Myanmar, the Rohingya suffer. But is change coming?
- Investigations
- Conflict
- 3 July 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan recruiting Taliban fighters into pro-government militias

Is it wise for Pakistan to commandeer Taliban members to fight rival militant groups on its behalf?
- Investigations
- Migration
- 10 May 2017
Women refugees at risk of sexual assault in Berlin shelters

Germany is failing to protect female refugees, leaving them vulnerable to sexual harassment and assault
- Investigations
- Conflict
- 25 April 2017
Captive IS fighters face extrajudicial killings on fringes of Mosul conflict

* WARNING - CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
- Investigations
- Conflict
- 20 April 2017
Decree 66: The blueprint for al-Assad’s reconstruction of Syria?

Critics say the president is seeking to engineer demographic change through urban planning even as the bombs still fall
- Investigations
- Aid and Policy
- 6 April 2017
How advocacy gave Trump ammunition on conflict-free minerals

If Trump does repeal conflict-free mineral legislation, would advocacy groups be partly to blame for not being more open about its limitations?
- Investigations
- Health
- 21 March 2017
The cost of “progress”?

A months-long investigation by IRIN, Le Monde Afrique, and 100Reporters reveals how the failed promises of a multi-million-dollar, World Bank-backed mining project has forced out and impoverished hundreds of local families
- Investigations
- Migration
- 21 February 2017
How "voluntary" are UK refugee returns?

An IRIN investigation finds evidence the Home Office is using outside NGOs to pressure asylum seekers
- Investigations
- Solutions and Innovations
- 20 February 2017
Can a disruptive approach force aid system rethink?

Proposing a new "common sense" way to help refugees, the EC and Britain have met with a backlash. How a project in Lebanon might hold clues to the future of aid.
- Investigations
- Conflict
- 14 February 2017
Who pays the hidden price for Congo’s conflict-free minerals?

An IRIN investigation finds merit in President Trump’s claims that a US law banning conflict minerals is leading to lost livelihoods
- Investigations
- Aid and Policy
- 24 January 2017
EXCLUSIVE: World Vision rattles aid groups with solo operation for Syrians at Jordan border

Critics say World Vision shouldn’t be getting into bed with an armed group to deliver aid to stranded Syrians. But is the scheme any worse than the alternatives?