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Letter from the Executive Director

Welcome to IWPR’s new online environment.

It is a perilous moment for news – and for news gatherers. While international media see their business models collapse, the danger for journalists in the field has never been greater. Yet we re-launch our website with radical hope

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Iraq After US Withdrawal – End of Era or New Beginning?

Hiwa Osman

Time for Iraqi leaders to take steps to prevent regional players moving in to further their own agendas.

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Ancient Iranian Faith Survives Despite Odds

Hasan Sarbakhshian

Images of the Zoroastrian community, whose complex beliefs predate Islam and Christianity.

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Pakistan Trainees Report on Flood Disaster

18 Aug 2010

Blog set up to host articles written by young people from some of worst-affected regions of Pakistan.
Boost for Iraqi Media Rights Campaign

11 Aug 2010

IWPR campaign groups unite to bolster advocacy efforts in the country.
Baptism of Fire in Pakistan

16 Aug 2010

After just three months’ of training, latest IWPR recruits are reporting on strife-torn tribal areas.

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Story Behind The Story

Armenian Gays Face Intolerance, Discrimination

Sara Khojoyan

When I was commissioned to write an article about Armenia’s gay community, I did not anticipate the problems I would face finding people to talk to. It took me a month to arrange the meetings I needed, each of them laboriously set up via a mutual friend.

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Reporting Justice: A Handbook on Covering War Crimes Courts

Whatever drives you to report on justice, you need to have the tools to do it. That is what this handbook sets out to provide. It is intended for journalists undertaking one of the most challenging, important and potentially rewarding of tasks: reporting on the trials of war crimes suspects or investigating war crimes on the ground.

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IWPR’s Azerbaijan country director

I was born on April 22, 1965 in the village of Surakhany near the Azerbaijan capital of Baku in an important oil-producing area. I have lived there all my life. My late father worked in an engineering factory, while my mother worked in a library. She is retired now.

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