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About Kira Schacht

Kira Schacht is a data journalist at Deutsche Welle. She studied data-driven journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund and trained at rbb science. She is part of the data journalism initiative Journocode.

How these companies tried to greenwash their plastic waste

By |2023-05-17T10:41:26+01:00November 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Europe’s food and drinks companies make big promises to cut plastic waste. But they don't deliver. We checked. A story about ambitious commitments, hidden failures and how to hold firms accountable.

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European food companies break their plastics promises

By |2023-04-13T10:41:27+01:00August 9th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Two-thirds of pledges to go greener on plastic fail or are dropped, a DW investigation has found. Here's how European food and drink companies break their own commitments, and how legislation might hold them accountable.

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Presumed innocent but detained for months pretrial in Germany and EU

By |2023-04-04T03:19:27+01:00June 15th, 2022|Tags: , , |

One in five people jailed in the European Union hasn't been convicted of a crime — including 12,000 in Germany alone. Studies suggest that pretrial detention is unnecessary in most cases.

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One in five people in EU prisons are in pretrial detention

By , , , , , , , , , |2023-04-04T03:17:13+01:00May 10th, 2022|Tags: , , |

People waiting for a final sentence often suffer worse conditions than convicted prisoners, even if they're innocent.

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How Europe’s prisons have fared in the Covid-19 pandemic

By |2023-04-13T10:44:22+01:00December 6th, 2021|Tags: , , , , |

Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons.

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Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin

By , , , |2023-04-04T01:03:02+01:00June 17th, 2020|Tags: , , , |

An exclusive investigation reveals that Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women, shaping the behavior of content creators and the worldview of 140 millions Europeans in what remains a blind spot of EU regulations.

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