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The four-part, data-driven, and cross-border investigation on how diplomatic immunity is used to use migrant employees wins the 2024 regional Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting
MANILA, Philippines – A Rappler sequence investigating how diplomats exploit their migrant home employees and get away with it gained the 2024 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) regional Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting on Thursday, June 20.
The sequence, referred to as Diplomatic Immunity and Impunity, is a four-part story written by journalist Ana P. Santos, Rappler multimedia reporter Michelle Abad, and Rappler forensics researcher Pauline Macaraeg. SOPA introduced the winners on Thursday, June 20.
“Extensively researched investigation uncovering how diplomats exploit low cost labor with impunity. Congratulations!” SOPA stated in an X publish.
The Diplomatic Immunity and Impunity sequence is a data-driven, cross-border investigation unveiling how erring diplomats have been in a position to exploit their home employees and have gotten away with it for many years because of a privilege referred to as diplomatic immunity given to them by the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations.
By in depth analysis and evaluation, the group constructed a database and created visualizations of reported instances of diplomat abuses of migrant employees.
Many of the exploited home employees have been discovered to be girls from creating international locations. Years after escaping the abuse, justice remained elusive for the employees.
The primary four-part sequence was complemented with an explainer on diplomatic immunity, a documentary that includes case research of home employees who got here ahead, and a particular Inside Observe report on the most absurd instances of abuse the group monitored.
Reporting for the venture was supported by JournalismFund Europe’s Trendy Slavery Unveiled Grant Programme, in addition to the Pulitzer Middle.
This SOPA award honors the life and work of Carlos Tejada, The New York Occasions’ deputy Asia editor who died in December 2021. It acknowledges a publication “that advances the general public curiosity on a subject of significance by exposing wrongdoing or corruption, uncovering malfeasance or, in another method, holding the highly effective to account.”
SOPA additionally acknowledged as Honorable Point out a chunk by Frontier Myanmar investigating the plastic waste commerce which finally uncovered an “opaque world provide chain that’s simply exploited by overseas firms.”
The diplomatic immunity sequence was one among two Rappler finalists within the 2024 SOPA awards – the opposite being Rappler’s investigation into the lethal 2022 Kusiong landslides.
The Kusiong Story Venture is comprised of a two-part investigative story and a documentary that regarded into the plight of the non-Moro indigenous peoples Teduray of Barangay Kusiong in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte.
The Kusiong venture was a finalist within the regional Excellence in Journalistic Innovation class. The group used animations primarily based on in depth analysis and neighborhood and knowledgeable interviews to point out what occurred after Teduray residents have been pressured to vacate their shoreline houses in 2020 to relocate to a brand new space that was buried in mud after landslides have been triggered by Extreme Tropical Storm Paeng in 2022.
Rappler has gained a number of SOPA awards for its reporting on the surroundings and the lethal drug warfare of the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
SOPA earlier acknowledged Rappler’s tales on the Marawi siege, the Philippines’ incest downside, and exploitation of girls by cops, and the plight of seafarers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. – Rappler.com
