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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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Sunni Militia’s “Struggle for Relevance”

Neil Arun

23 Jul 10

Recent deadly bombing underscores fraught future of Iraqi tribal force that fought insurgents.

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Iran's Loyal Defenders Start Young

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Images of adolescent paramilitaries from the Basij movement.

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High-Level Debate on Kyrgyz Violence

21 Jul 2010

IWPR teams up with leading foreign policy think-tank to assess the significance of the recent clashes.

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Reporting on the Kyrgyz Unrest

I was only three years old the last time there were major clashes between the Kyrgyz and members of the large ethnic Uzbek minority in southern Kyrgyzstan, 20 years ago.

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Shahin Rzayev

Azerbaijan

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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