openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is a groundbreaking, global, feminist investigative journalism initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging organised threats to women’s and LGBTIQ rights. Our investigations have been cited across world media – including by Al Jazeera, the BBC, Grazia UK, The Guardian, Reuters, Time and Telemundo. They have also been picked up by numerous outlets across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, including Infobae (Argentina), Agência Pública (Brazil), Aristegui Noticias (Mexico), JoyOnline (Ghana), the Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick, and SABC (South Africa) and Daily Monitor (Uganda).
Our trailblazing, 18-country investigation into organised anti-abortion misinformation linked to two US Christian right groups led health authorities in Costa Rica, Ecuador and South Africa to promise formal inquiries and potential action. Another agenda-setting investigation – into violations of women’s rights in childbirth during COVID-19 – was nominated for the 2020 British Journalism Awards and the Latin American Investigative Journalism Award ‘Javier Valdez’ . In addition, we revealed a $280m global ‘dark money’ empire funded by US religious right groups, many of them linked to Donald Trump’s administration.
We are now recruiting for two new regional correspondents to join our team – part-time (2.5 days a week) – to help us expand our coverage in Francophone West Africa, and Central America and southern Mexico (a cultural sub-region known as Mesoamerica). These new positions are strategic additions to our team that will build on our recent achievements in Africa and Latin America.
