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People chant slogans and sing songs during a rally for International Women's Day on March 08, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. © Burak Kara/Getty Images

IWPR's Turkish handbook helps women journalists counter gender disinformation.

Women journalists working in the Turkish media face multiple challenges, including prejudice, exclusion and harassment. © Burak Kara/Getty Images

Interview

Turkey: “Media Can Show Solutions”

How newsrooms need to organise to boost gender equality.

A still from a promotional video by ISIS Prisons Museum.

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Remembering Islamic State Victims

Virtual museum documents Islamic State atrocities through digital technology and forensic investigation.

Smoke rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on October 2, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. © Daniel Carde/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Lebanon in Crisis

Misinformation spreads panic in Lebanon amid Israel's ongoing offensive against Hezbollah.

Religious groups that dominate the political system in Iraq have been pushing to erode women’s rights in the country for more than a decade. Illustration by Jumar.media

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Iraqi Women Fight for Their Rights

Iraq may transfer marriage and inheritance laws to religious authorities, threatening women's rights.

The Beirut skyline is seen at sunset on August 06, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

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Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Despite ordinary people’s great resilience, we must never normalise civilians forced to live in a state of war.

Broadcast journalists record as smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes that hit the city's southern suburbs early in the morning on October 2, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. After escalating strikes against Hezbollah facilities and leadership, the Israeli army announced it was launching a "limited" ground invasion of Lebanon and told residents of more than two dozen villages in the southern part of the country to evacuate. © Daniel Carde/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Lebanese people are once again facing the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Hizbullah.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

Special Mention: 2024 Women’s Journalism Prize

Short Sleeves in Iraq

Defying social pressure to cope with the hardships of the summer heat.

International Criminal Court building in The Hague, Netherlands. © United Nations Photo/Creative Commons

Interview

“International Justice is the Servant of the World”

Leading justice expert explains why potential indictments over Gaza war could be a game-changer.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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