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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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Report Helps Thwart Katanga Assembly Bullying

11 Aug 2010

Lawmakers say IWPR report contributed to ending threatening behaviour of young activists in one of DRC’s provincial parliaments.
Boost for Iraqi Media Rights Campaign

11 Aug 2010

IWPR campaign groups unite to bolster advocacy efforts in the country.
Armenian Minorities Helped to Get Message Across

12 Aug 2010

IWPR teaches communities how to improve communications using new media tools.

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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-trained journalist in northern Uganda

I was born on December 25, 1980 in the village of Akuki in the Oyam district of northern Uganda. I'm the first born in a family of four children. Both of my parents are still alive, but two of my brothers were abducted in an attack by the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, in 1998 and my uncle was executed. My village was destroyed by the rebels in the same year.

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