The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets 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. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "human rights" ...
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Contacts, Strategies and resources for Border and Immigration Coverage
Olsen provides an extensive lists of resources for covering issues related to immigration - including US Government sites/data, Mexican nonprofit organizations, key journalism sites, think tanks, lawyers, and much more
Tags: immigration; human rights; boarder patrol; boarder states; crime statistics; legal issues; immigrants; immigration studies
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Investigating the past with results in the present
Mitchell summarizes methods for constructing investigations that probe beyond the recent past. He suggests research methods, useful records and human sourcing techniques that he employed in his IRE Award-winning investigation of unresolved murder cases during the civil rights era in Mississippi.
Tags: open records; courts; law enforcement; justice; criminal justice system; crime; public records; history; historical investigations; law
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The Broken Promise
"The Broken Promise" is a two year investigation into the arrest of two Egyptian asylum-seekers in Sweden. The investigators found that US was responsible for their arrest, including the inhumane conditions under which it took place.
Tags: asylum; political prisoners; broadcast journalism; FOIA; freedom of information; human rights; international reporting
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Racial Profiling in US Customs Searches
Dale Russell shares the lessons learned from a recent I-team investigation about racial profiling in US Customs searches at airports. The tipsheet includes helpful facts about human sources, getting original source documents, and using IRE as a resource.
Tags: racial profiling; U.S. customs inspectors; airport security
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How You, Too, Can Dig Up The Past
Nobody is going to tell you the whole story on a crime, especially if it's been a while since authorities brushed off the dust on it. Mitchell tells you how to do it yourself, how to dig into records, scour past coverage, and follow the paper trail to humanized testimonies. By the time you are finished reading Mitchell's tipsheet, you will be one step closer to thinking like a detective, like a prosecutor, and like a historian... and yes, that means "think outside the box." Mitchell tells you all from excavating the evidence to avoiding to dash your foot against a stone: what to do if someone says you cannot have the evidence, if people are shutting up, or if someone does not want to talk. He puts forth the rules of thumb and how to talk to targets.
Tags: investigation; investigating; investigative; criminal record; digging into past; sources; records; paper trail; interviews; ambush; detective; prosecutor; historian; courthouse; crime; court; docket.
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The Woman Trade
Baskin lists several organizations and their Web sites that offer information about the still-thriving slave trade and exploitation of immigrants.
Tags: victims; visas; UN Protocol to Prevent; Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons; migrant domestic workers' rights; women and children; human rights; migration; The Coalition to Abolish Slavery.
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Counsel for the poor
This extensive packet includes general information about the death penalty in addition to contacts and sources on capital punishment, a few possible areas of capital punishment for possible investigation and reporting, a discussion by Bright on whether the death penalty is the answer to crime, Supreme Court papers denying a stay of execution and articles relating to the death penalty.
Tags: death penalty; capital punishment; investigative reporting; crime; justice; Supreme Court; execution
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Information Sources on Criminal Justice and Prison Issues
Two-page tip sheet for information sources on criminal justice and prison issues. Several experts listed for any questions that may arise concerning criminal justice policy issues, sentencing, alternatives to incarceration, death penalty, women prisoners and children of prisoners, AIDS in prison, etc. Also four-page journal of the National Prison Project, Winter 1994/95.
Tags: Department of Corrections The Sentencing Project Human Rights 6 pages
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Tipsheet No: 140
A one page listing of available sources for reporting on, or in, Mexico. Includes the most important government ministries, embassies, human rights commissions, environmental groups, political parties and the Mexican White House and Attorney General's office. Includes information on dialing into Mexico and phone and fax numbers. Indicates that all sources will speak English.