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Explore OZY’s Investigations Unit

OZY Investigations marries our unique voice and quality with our ability to find stories that matter where others just aren’t looking.

At OZY, we constantly strive to keep you ahead of the curve with fresh trends, profiles, experiences and nuggets of history that you won’t find covered elsewhere but that could shape your life. In 2019, we went one step further, adding an edge to our coverage with deeply reported and well-researched investigative stories.

Our unmatched global reach — with nearly 200 reporters across the world — gives OZY a rare perch from which to find and report things that those in positions of influence, whether in the United States or Uganda, would rather keep hidden from the public eye.

OZY Investigation: Breaking the Silence on Croatia’s Rising ‘Womb Violence’

Rising conservatism and a shortage of doctors are combining to turn the surgeon's table into a theater of violence against women in Croatia.

Croatian parliamentarian Ivana Ninčević–Lesandrić was struggling with the trauma of a first-trimester miscarriage, and nothing could’ve prepared her for what came next. At the hospital, she was tied to a table as a surgeon performed curettage to scrape out tissue from her uterus — all without administering anesthesia. “Those were the 30 most painful minutes of my life,” she recalls. “And I can recall every second of it.”