The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "sexual discrimination" ...
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CBS News Investigates: Air Marshalls
CBS News discovered that the U.S. Air marshals are riddled with internal problems. CBS News obtained information that shows supervisors routinely discriminating and intimidating air marshals according to their race, gender and sexual orientation.
Tags: military; U.S. airplanes; discrimination; sexual discrimination; racism
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"The Lonely Soldier"
In her book, author Helen Benedict reveals what it is like to be a female in the military and serving overseas. She shares stories of sexual abuse and "discrimination against women and people of color." Female soldiers also suffer from health problems caused by the "lack of adequate medical care for women." Benedict also looks at the lives of women after they return home who suffer from isolation and "multiples traumas of combat and sexual assault."
Tags: Iraq war; female soldiers; National Guard; Afghanistan; Dept. of Veterans Affairs; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Military Sexual Trauma; Air Force; Marines
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"FEMA's Toxic Bureaucracy"
After nearly a year of reporting, the CBS News Investigative Unit reported a string of "discrimination, sexual harassment and cronyism in the New Orleans" FEMA office. Several staff members went on camera to share stories revealing the "toxic environment" of the FEMA office. Just a day after the story aired, an internal investigation was launched by FEMA, and the Chief of Staff was quickly transferred.
Tags: Gulf Coast Recovery; Nancy Ward; Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA Louisiana Transitional Recovery; Doug Whitmer; Joseph Cao; Jim Stark; Mary Landrieu
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Sexual-Harassment Cases Plaque U.N.
This investigation digs into how the United Nations (U.N.) handles internal sexual harassment complaints. The current system for handling complaints is arbitrary, unfair and delays bureaucracy. Many cases take years to judge, accusers either retire or resign, which leaves them out of reach of the U.N. justice system. Overall, “no matter which way the cases go, they mishandle it.”
Tags: United Nations (U.N.); sex discrimination; foreign affairs; Ban Ki-moon; Ruud Lubbers; Investigation Committee
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Canada vs. Vatican
Le Point magazine compares the Catholic Church's official doctrine re: homosexuality and gay marriage to the realities of sexual abuse by Canadian priests, finding a blatant conflict between the Vatican's condemnation of gay marriage and its long-standing toleration of priests' child abuse. The article is in French, but the Resource Center has provided a basic translation in English.
Tags: separation of church and state; discrimination; civil rights; Catholic Church; Vatican; the Pope; child abuse; child pornography
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The black avenger: Milton Crawford exposes the DWP's big whitewash ... racism, intimidation and harassment
This investigation exposed a decades-long cover-up of racism and harassment by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The story revealed how the nation's largest public utility and the city attorney's office used illegal confidential settlements to conceal nearly $10 million in outside legal costs and settlements stemming from workplace discrimination, harassment, and intimidation at the Department of Water and Power.
Tags: Los Angeles; Department of Water and Power; racism; workplace discrimination; sexual harassment
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The Secret Court of 1920
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper, tells the story of "The Court," a secret university tribunal that labeled 14 men "guilty" of being or knowing homosexuals, following the 1920 suicide of a Harvard student. Some of the men were ultimately forced to leave the university and the city of Cambridge. The Court had been kept secret for more than 80 years.
Tags: homosexuals; suicide; secret; FOI; higher education; colleges; sexual orientation; discrimination; students
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Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street
Antilla documents the history of sexual harassment and discrimination in the brokerage industry over the past two decades. The book follows the story of Pamela K. Martens, who along with her coplaintiffs in Martens et al vs. Smith Barney, et al, went public with shocking allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
Tags: BOOK; securities business; Wall Street; sexual harassment; sexual discrimination; EEOC; Olde Discount Corporation; Martens et al vs. Smith Barney; Pamela K. Martens; BOOK PAGES-342
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Can the Wounds Ever Heal?
This article takes an in-depth look into the Free Clinic of Cleveland and allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination and intimidation done by the executive director. The report describes the problems between the executive director and a volunteer at the clinic. These problems ultimately led to the volunteer, who was an integral part of the clinic, being fired.
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Financial Exposure
This report unravels a scandal - complex, contentious, at times salacious - that rocked the financial fortress of Wall Street. When Christian Leigh Curry, a junior analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, was fired after nude photos of him surfaced in a gay porn magazine, the employee shot back with a racial and sexual discrimination suit. MSDW's computers allegedly contained racist and homophobic e-mail, which it claims were planted by Curry. MSDW also allegedly falsified business records to cover payments to a source for information against Curry.
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT Christian Leigh Curry; Charles Joseph Luethke; e-mail; Internet; police; investment banking; Manhattan extortion