In launching our Women’s Reporting and Dialogue Programme, IWPR looks at a different kind of frontline - the battle women in Islamic countries are waging to define new rights in changing times.
Women become the breadwinners in this patriarchal society, leaving men depressed and suicidal.
Eyewitnesses tell how President Karimov’s soldiers finished off the injured as they lay bleeding, and then concealed the corpses.
IWPR reporter's eyewitness account of scenes of panic as armoured cars spray gunfire randomly into crowds of demonstrators.
The interim government wants militiamen to hand in their weapons, but their prospects on Civvy Street are far from promising.
International organisations hope to restore a once-spectacular tomb, palace and mosque on the outskirts of Kabul
India and Pakistan jostle for markets – and influence – in Afghanistan.
Many young Afghans are turning to Bollywood movies for style tips – but only in the more cosmopolitan areas of the capital.
Tajiks living near the border with Afghanistan are falling prey to drug dealers who are taking desperate measure to recover debts.
