Since OCCRP published an investigation in August that uncovered potentially controversial shareholders in India’s third-largest conglomerate, reporters who worked on the story have been targeted with state intimidation and surveillance attempts.

OCCRP partner journalists Ravi Nair and Anand Mangnale.

United Kingdom authorities agreed to take a crucial step in cracking down on affluent elites’ exploitation of the legal system in order to silence investigative journalists and campaigners.

The transport business is often hijacked by organized crime – in particular the highly lucrative vehicle-towing industry – which gangs infiltrate across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa through violence, intimidation and corruption, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime warned.

A combination of corporate greed and government failures in relation to the expanding palm oil plantations in Western Indonesia harmed surrounding communities and caused  mass environmental destruction, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found on Thursday.

More than 30 United Nations member states came together on Friday to condemn the trajectory of human rights in Egypt and call for an end to the use of terror against those perceived as threats to the state for simply exercising their right to freedom of expression.