CIR Featured Projects
Posted June 26th, 2007 by Dave Nichols
Featured Investigation:
 | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling with festering internal divisions between political appointees and career officials over how to enforce laws and handle detainees facing deportation. |
Recent Investigations:
 | Attorney General Jerry Brown has dismissed an increasing number of criminal cases against defendants suspected of elder abuse in contrast to Bill Lockyer, who made such cases a priority. |
 | As soccer stars and fans converge in South Africa for the World Cup, Christopher Werth travels into the Cape Town slums to investigate reports that people are being displaced to make way for the games. Also, a multimedia report from Johannesburg. |
 | The Obama administration's recent decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. G.W. Schulz reports for AOL's Politics Daily. |
 | CIR and FRONTLINE/World track the emerging market in forest carbon offsets. In this FRONTLINE/World segment (broadcast May 11), CIR senior correspondent Mark Schapiro and producer Andres Cediel travel deep into the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon, where they discover what life is like on the other end of an offset deal. Carbon Watch won a People's Voice Webby Award! |
 | After the collapse of communism in 1989, millions of former Soviet bloc residents migrated abroad; since then, thousands of Eastern European women have been sold into prostitution in places like Turkey and Dubai. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova investigates this rarely documented journey. |
 | In the digital age, half our electricity still comes from coal. Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future is a documentary that reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. |
 | Correspondent Anna Badkhen checks in with FRONTLINE/World's iWitness from Grozny, where a still-simmering insurgency and brutal government crackdown continue to plague Chechnya. Badkhen's reporting trip was made possible by a grant from CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund. |
 | In February 2007, Alberto R. Gonzales, the attorney general under President George W. Bush, issued a stern warning to those who murdered blacks with impunity during the civil rights era: “You have not gotten away with anything. We are still on your trail.”
He noted that time was short. The window of opportunity to solve racially motivated crimes more than 40 years old was closing. Families of the victims had waited decades for resolution, while suspects and witnesses have died. More than three years later, they are still waiting. |
 | CIR has partnered with an array of Bay Area journalists, media organizations, and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to form an investigative team to continue the work of journalist Chauncey Bailey Jr., and answer questions regarding his death. Bailey, editor of the weekly Oakland Post, was murdered on August 2 while reporting on a story regarding the suspicious activities of the Your Black Muslim Bakery. |