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Associate Director and Senior Researcher E.J. Graff has won two prestigious journalism awards for her article "The Lie We Love,” Foreign Policy magazine, Nov./Dec. 2008:

Follow the link for our full investigation.

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Corruption in International Adoptions 

"Celebrity Adoptions and the Real World," a "running commentary on the news" 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 slide-show essay that presents the stories and struggles of families affected by fraudulent international adoption, May 8, 2009, Slate.com.

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

The page 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.

Award-winning investigation: "The Lie We Love," Foreign Policy, Nov./Dec. 2008, E.J. Graff, Associate Director and Senior Researcher, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Includes this online slide show: Photo Essay: The Baby Bazaar."Where Do Babies Come From?" Interactive map and website

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.

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Teen Sexual Harrassment 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.

Sexual Harassment of Teens at Work

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.


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