Sakar Maan, one of the activists that lead the initiative, inside the Iraqi airforce plane holding some of the letters about to be dropped over Mosul.
Sakar Maan, one of the activists that lead the initiative, inside the Iraqi airforce plane holding some of the letters about to be dropped over Mosul. © IWPR
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Training session in social media for imams in Kyzylorda, a city in south-central Kazakstan. © CABAR/IWPR
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A woman wearing a face mask reads a newspaper in Havana, Cuba on July 29, 2020. © YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images
Abu Omar, 70, sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his record player, in Aleppo's al-Shaar neighbourhood.
Abu Omar, 70, sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his record player, in Aleppo's al-Shaar neighbourhood. © JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-government protesters in Kiev calling for ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union, February 2014.
Anti-government protesters in Kiev calling for ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union, February 2014. © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at an event at Barber Institute of Fine Art, November 2015 in Birmingham, England.
Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at an event at Barber Institute of Fine Art, November 2015 in Birmingham, England. © Richard Stonehouse/Getty Images
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Four Million Love Letters to Mosul

IWPR helped organise a mass airdrop of messages of solidarity from ordinary Iraqis to residents of Mosul suffering under Islamic State (IS) occupation.

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We never heard of such thing during a war; usually airplanes drop bombs and [this] airplane is dropping love letters.

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Central Asia: Imams Turn Influencers

IWPR is training a new generation of social media influencers across Central Asia to spread tolerance and counter violent extremism.

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I was able to persuade families that it was a good thing to give their girls an education.

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IWPR’s network of reporters in Cuba are defying one of the most repressive media environments in the world to expose mass government disinformation over the Covid-19 crisis.

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These stories can be presented as the ultimate testimonies of the difficult times experienced by all Cubans.

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A handbook produced by IWPR’s partners in Ukraine has become the go-to text for the country’s main anti-corruption body.

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Malala’s IWPR Roots

Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai began her campaigning work as a 12-year-old IWPR trainee in a Pakistani programme empowering young people through public debate and dialogue.

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In IWPR's Open Minds, we students learned how to express ourselves and the problems of others through the media. We learned so much in the trainings.

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Prize laureate

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Georgia: FGM Banned After IWPR Investigation

The Georgian government criminalised female genital mutilation (FGM) following an IWPR investigation that revealed the practice was ongoing in the east of the country.

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The Koran does not say that circumcision is a duty.

Yasin Aliyev

Mufti of Georgia´s Muslims Administration

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Transnational Repression in Central Asia

Belarussian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is to headline an IWPR event on transnational repression in Central Asia on August 5, 14:30 BST.
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