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IWPR Story Prompts Help for Gypsies in Tbilisi

Work under way to issue identification papers allowing access to public services.
Photojournalism Training for Uzbek Journalists

Images of Kyrgyzstan reflect freedom to depict social ills regarded as taboo in Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan: IWPR Film Tackles Past Atrocities

Documentary helps some come to terms with the past, and younger audience to find out more about it.

IWPR Postcard

Libyan embassy London, autumn 2011. (Photo: Gordon2208/Flickr)

New diplomatic staff tasked with rebuilding relations and recovering stolen state assets. Deputy mission chief Ahmed Gebreel talks about breaking with the Gaddafi regime.

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Pakistan: Briefing Manual on Current Affairs

Open Minds project is an IWPR initiative in Pakistan which directly addresses the extremist propaganda that fosters discord and negative impressions of the West, by offering a fact-based, analytical approach to discussing and disseminating information on critical social issues.

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Natalya Napolskaya

Kazakhstan

I was born in the city of Shymkent in southern Kazakstan in 1989 and grew up there. After secondary school, I moved to Almaty, the cultural capital of the country, and it was there that I got actively involved in journalism. I studied journalism at the Kazak National University.

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IWPR Insight

Picking a Winner in Turkmenistan

Inga Sikorskaya

Turkmenistan’s president Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov is standing for a second term on February 12. Since the outcome is a foregone conclusion, IWPR asked Inga Sikorskaya, senior editor for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to explain why Berdymuhammedov is even bothering to campaign, why he has invited candidates to oppose him, and why he has promised to allow more than the current one political party to exist.

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In Memoriam

Pakistani Journalist Stood For Truth – and Died For It

Mukarram Khan Atif reporting from his home Mohmand Agency. Photo courtesy of Voice of America. (Copyright VOA)

Leading reporter Mukarram Khan Atif murdered by Taleban gunmen while at prayer.

US military banner is furled in a ceremony to mark the end of US military operations in Iraq, December 15, 2011. (Photo: Sgt. Jessica M. Kuhn, XVIII Airborne Corps PAO/US Army)

Iraqis Concerned at US Withdrawal

Does end of military mission expose Iraq to new dangers?

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IWPR Focus

Radovan Karadzic Trial

Comprehensive analysis and reports on the Karadzic case as part of IWPR's International Justice/ICTY programme.

Story Behind the Story

DRC Rape Victims Waiting for Justice

“After you were raped in 2003 did you go see a doctor?” asked Nick Kaufman, the lawyer representing alleged Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, detained in The Hague on charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2008.