IWPR Iraq is raising awareness of human rights with a new advocacy programme aimed at enabling the media and civil society to press effectively for change.

A group of female journalists working in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, have set up their own website to get stories on justice and rights issues out to a wider audience.

IWPR has joined up with a local media development organisation, the Northern Uganda Media Club, NUMEC, to launch a year-long apprenticeship scheme for three of its reporters in northern Uganda.

An IWPR probe into the state of children’s homes in Armenia has stirred an internet debate, with most users appalled at the neglect outlined in the report. But officials have been unresponsive on the issue.

IWPR brought together ten young journalists from Azerbaijan and Armenia in July to report on the problems of national minorities in Georgia. Their reporting was fruitful, but they most of all enjoyed meeting each other.

Participants at an international conference in Sarajevo last month said an IWPR documentary on the ethnically-mixed village of Baljvine gave hope that members of different ethnic groups in Bosnia can live together, despite the divisions imposed on them by the country’s politicians.

IWPR’s June coverage of the arrest of the Hague tribunal’s most wanted suspect Ratko Mladic was seen by some young readers in Serbia as much better informed, objective and wide-ranging than the local media’s reporting of the story.

An IWPR report (Grave Abuse Alleged at Kabul Juvenile Centre)  about the murder of a young boy in a Kabul juvenile detention centre where it was alleged that lax procedures had left children vulnerable to abuse has led to better care at the facility.

IWPR reporting on the latest upsurge in Islamic militant activity in eastern Tajikistan was the only media coverage providing insights into the extent of the danger facing the country from Muslim extremists, analysts say.

A round table on the prevention of teenage suicide in Kazakstan, which was jointly organised by IWPR, and inspired by one of its report on the subject, has prompted the authorities into action.

Associations representing relatives of people who disappeared during the Bosnian war say a report by IWPR on the subject has helped to draw attention to their continued struggle to find loved ones sixteen years after the conflict.

Young journalists trained by IWPR and its local partners to report on transitional justice issues say this experience has enabled them to better understand some important issues confronting Bosnia’s post-war society.

Conservation officials in Herat say the publication of an IWPR report on rare-bird trafficking has drawn support from the security services and the general public for their efforts to combat the trade.

Afghan officials say that an IWPR report highlighting the problem of security checkpoints located near clinics and schools has prompted them to change this practice.