Project Updates

Round-up of news and developments in IWPR programmes around the world.

Trainees learn the financial management skills needed for a career in design in advertising. (Photo: IWPR)
Project Highlight
Enhancing financial management forms part of efforts to build female-run advertising and design agency.
Reporting Impact
Funds to become more readily available after story on concerns of Iraqis living in Syria.
Participants in IWPR-organised photography workshop learn how to use camcorders. (Photo: IWPR)
Project Highlight
Scheme aimed at improving women's prospects in advertising and design begins with Baghdad photography workshop.
IWPR Iraq Facebook page: Iraq Human Rights Media Links.
Project Highlight
Arabic-language initiative aims to link activists across the country.
Project Highlight
IWPR workshop seeks to improve knowledge of rights legislation and related subjects amongst influential groups.
Reporting Impact
IWPR practical and financial support has helped Iraqi media organisations to overcome problems and prosper.
Project Highlight
IWPR human rights conference links journalists, activists, lawyers and officials.
IWPR Iraq senior media adviser Hiwa Osman discusses the growing influence of citizen journalists in Iraq at the IWPR/IREX conference Media Law in Iraq and the Region: Rapid Changes/New Challenges, held March 4-5 in Erbil. Osman used a photo of a young man who recorded crackdowns on demonstrators in Sulaimaniyah to argue that all citizens - not just journalists - require the same protection and rights to information under the law. (Photo: Hazim al-Sharaa/IWPR)
Project Highlight
IWPR/IREX conference in Erbil underlines importance of open access to information.
Project Highlight
Iraqi trainees say they learnt important journalistic lessons from IWPR course.
Reporting Impact
Prize awarded for story revealing thefts of treasures from national museum.