IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Unscrupulous mullahs accused of marrying young girls whose health and education then suffer.
Volunteers try to help bereaved youngsters still traumatised by the conflict.
More and more young people are taking their own lives in Tajikistan’s mountainous southwest, and no one can really say why.
New rules requiring people to pay government institutions for advice and information have caused anger in Tajikistan, Central Asia’s poorest state.
Senior Kurdish official offers help to impoverished former fighter featured in IWPR story.
When former Soviet diplomat Ishenbay Abdurazakov addressed students in the Kyrgyz capital, talk turned to the issue of whether western human rights values apply in this Central Asian state.
A campaign to root out corruption has been launched in Kyrgyzstan’s schools, the idea being that children acquire their values, good and bad, at an early age.
Nuraim Ryskulova reports on a national youth camp where young people gathered from all over Kyrgyzstan to discuss how they could change their country for the better.
Breakthrough in prolonged dispute over planned elections means little to Iraqis still facing violence and hardship.