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Still from documentary Criminal Code - one of the documentaries IWPR trainees helped produce during the 12-month project on transitional justice. (Photo: IWPR)

One War Crime, Two Lawbooks in Bosnia

Application of different legal frameworks results in disparate sentencing for similar offences.

Fire-Damaged Tbilisi Church in Ownership Row

Armenians want to reclaim church premises where they once worshipped in Georgia.

Despite Ban, Tajik Islamists Continue Recruiting

Hizb ut-Tahrir now targets adolescents and vulnerable women, experts say.

Visitors from Serbia laying flowers at a monument to those killed at the Ovcara farm. Yugoslav army soldiers took some 260 patients and staff from Vukovar’s hospital and murdered them here. (Photo: Vladimir Dmitric)

Story Behind the Story

Vukovar Trip Leaves Indelible Impression of Horror

Serbian journalist recounts emotional visit to scenes of past bloodshed in Croatia.

Still from documentary Criminal Code - one of the documentaries IWPR trainees helped produce during the 12-month project on transitional justice.

Bosnian Film Screenings Shake Up Long-Held Prejudices

Young people inspired by product of year-long initiative.

Confrontation between a female opposition activist and a group of pro-government demonstrators in 2009. (Photo: Timur Rayimkulov; courtesy of Kloop.kg)

Rent-a-Mob Protests in Central Asia

In Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, police and politicians recruit women as professional campaigners or just as troublemakers.

Police encircle journalists in Shetpe, where one man died after police used live fire on protestors on December 17. (Photo courtesy of Respublika news site http://www.respublika-kz.info/)

Kazak Spin Doctors Explain Police Shootings

First they imposed news blackout, then they devised alternative narrative for bloodshed.

IWPR Insight

Simmering Tensions Boil Over in Kazakstan

IWPR Central Asia editor Saule Mukhametrakhimova explains the backdrop to the protests, and how the authorities are handling the crisis.

Strong traditions and a unique faith bind the Yezidis together. (Photo: Lusine Avagyan)

Armenia: Yezidi Girls Fated For Teen Marriage

Custom of early weddings which put an end to girls’ education still strong in traditionalist community.

Global Voices: Europe/Eurasia

Ukraine Videos

Justice for Victims: Navigating Ukraine's War Crimes Trials

Investigating Crimes Against Cultural Heritage in Odesa

Ukraine: We Cannot Tire of the Fight

Ukraine: The Need for Military Aid

Konstantinivka: Yet Another Day After

Ukraine: Defending the Enemy

Ukraine: Investigating War Crimes

Ukraine: Deporting Children, a War Crime

Unbroken

Posad-Pokrovs’ke: “We Need a Whole New Village”

Ukraine: War Teens

Orikhiv: City on the Verge

Ukraine: Searching for the Dead

Ukraine’s Blood Donors

Ukraine: Giving Birth Under Fire

Ukraine: War Trains

Ukraine: Bulletproof Vests for Children

Saving Ukraine’s Abandoned Animals

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A woman reacts over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic that was damaged during a Russian missile attack, on June 1, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. At least three were killed, including a child, and others were injured by falling debris from intercepted missiles. © Roman Pilipey/Getty Images

Interview

Ukraine Justice: “Reporting the Story is Just the Start”

Journalists need training and support to properly cover war crimes trials.

Students attend a lesson on housekeeping at a training facility for domestic workers on November 22, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are a frequent destination for Ugandan domestic workers, with official estimates suggesting that around one hundred and sixty-five thousand Ugandans are in temporary employment contracts in the region. © Luke Dray/Getty Images

International Migrants Day

Ugandan Women Pay the Price of Exploitation

Activists warn that vulnerable domestic workers risk abuse, often returning with serious health conditions.

Ukraine War Diary by A. Borden

Harsh Victory at Position X

Commitment, sacrifice and luck secured a vital early win in the south-eastern campaign, but can Ukrainian forces press on?

Sevim Kaya has been a bus driver for 16 years.

Behind the Wheel in a Macho City

Some women face Adana's male-dominated traffic chaos for a living.

Karine (not her real name) was 15 when she realised that the male body she was born into was not hers. She moved from the rural community she grew up in to the capital Yerevan to be free to be herself. Unlinke many people in her community she was able to find a stable job as a hairdresser and manicurist. © Anahit Zakaryan

Life in the Shadows for Armenia’s Transgender Community

Recent murder highlights widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTI people.

An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. © Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

The Israel-Hamas Conflict

Interview: The War on Disinformation

Open source intelligence (OSINT) can provide facts – but impatient, angry audiences often prefer opinions.