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Corruption in International Adoptions 

"Celebrity Adoptions and the Real World," commentary by The New York Times editors, with a contribution by E.J. Graff: "The Seamier Side of International Adoption," May 10, The New York Times Opinion Blog.

"The Orphan Trade: A look at families affected by corrupt international adoptions," a photo essay that presents the stories and struggles of families affected by fraudulent international adoption, May 8, 2009, Slate.com.

"The Adoption Underworld," a full-page collaboration between The Washington Post and the Schuster Institute, January 11, 2009.

Includes "The orphan manufacturing chain," which graphically illustrates the steps by which international adoption money can be exchanged for children; and"Out of Cambodia," which recounts how a Cambodian child named Songkea was abducted for U.S. adoption, and reunited with her family five years later.

"The problem with saving the world's 'orphans'" dispels the myth of the world's 'orphans' by showing how some adoption agencies use enormous sums of money to locate and attract healthy, "adoptable" children, The Boston Globe Op-Ed, December 11, 2008.

Documentation, research, and analysis: Corruption in International Adoptions. In-depth information about serious irregularities in international adoptions worldwide.

Interactive map: See which countries have been plagued by serious corruption in international adoptions, and find links to further information.

Teen Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 

A shocking report—teenagers are in more danger from sexual predators at their after-school, weekend, and summer jobs than through the Internet.

• "E.J. Graff shines a light on the dark side of teen summer jobs," BrandeisNOW spotlight for Wednesday, July 15, 2009
• "Summer Jobs Often Lead to Harassment," ABC's WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston's investigative reporter Rhondella Richardson's interview with E.J. Graff (broadcast July 10, 11pm)
• "Is Your Daughter Safe at Work?" PBS Now/Schuster Institute, February 20, 2009 
• Sexual Harassment of Teens at Work, a resource site about the problem of sexual harassment as it relates to teens; and soon to come, a sampling of cases that have been brought to court
• "Where are working teens being harassed... and suing for it?" interactive map 
• “Is Your Daughter Safe at Work?” E.J. Graff in Good Housekeeping, June 2007

In both the NOW broadcast and the Good Housekeeping article, abused teenagers share their own stories, offering insight into the lives of more than 200,000 teens who are sexually assaulted on the job each year, and hundreds of thousands of others who are sexually coerced, groped, grabbed, and cornered in ways for which they are entirely unprepared. We track their legal journeys to justice, and examine how the issue impacts teenagers across the country—many of whom don’t know how to report workplace abuse, or even how to recognize when their bosses cross the line.

Pocantico Declaration

Network of nonprofit news organizations forms

The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism’s founding director, Florence Graves, is among 25 nonprofit journalism organization leaders who agreed to join forces to promote and support watchdog reporting that is dedicated not to the profit motive but to the public interest.

The announcement came via the Pocantico Declaration, which followed the conclusion of a recent groundbreaking meeting at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY.

Events

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Selected Institute Work

• "Do Women Count?," Brandeis University Magazine, Spring 2008
• "Watchdog Reporting: Exploring Its Myth," Nieman Reports, Spring 2008
• "First Things First," The Boston Sunday Globe, June 24, 2007
• "Is Your Daughter Safe at Work?," Good Housekeeping, June 2007
• "A Practical Present for Mom," The Boston Sunday Globe, May 13, 2007
• "The Mommy War Machine," Sunday Washington Post, April 29, 2007
• "The Opt-Out Myth," Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007
• "Striking Back," The Boston Globe, September 3, 2006
• "Till Hardships Do All of Us Part," The Boston Globe, July 25, 2006
• "Boeing Parts and Rules Bent, Whistle-Blowers Say," The Washington Post, April 17, 2006
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