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Bahrain: Protesters Reject Sunni-Shia Split Claims

Activists denounce Bahraini regime’s alleged attempt to present uprising as a sectarian conflict.

Social Media Lessons for Najaf Trainees

Baghdad-based reporter Khalid Waleed (left) accepting the award. (Photo: IWPR)

Iraqi Trainee Wins Press Courage Prize

Story Behind the Story

Sulaimaniyah in Eye of Storm

IWPR Postcard

Halabjans Suffer Neglect and Exploitation

Those who survived Saddam's chemical attack two decades ago feel badly let down by the Kurdish authorities.

Iraq's Christians and Yezidis - the only groups permitted to sell alcohol in Iraq - say Baghdad's crackdown on alcohol shops dealt them an economic blow and deepened uncertainty about their future. (Photo: Hazim al-Sharaa/IWPR)

Minority Businesses Fear Alcohol Bans

Federal authorities lift prohibition, but Baghdad officials warn sales could be restricted in future.

Children at a refugee camp near Sar-e Pol for Afghans recently returned from Iran, 2009. (Photo: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein)

Afghan Children Deported Alone From Iran

Hundreds of minors arrive in Afghanistan without their families.

First Person

Migrant Crisis on Libyan Border

Tunisian aid organisations and volunteers rally to assist the thousands of foreign workers who fled the fighting in Libya.

First Person

Yemeni Protesters Defy Government Crackdown

Demonstrators have been largely peaceful, but they could turn violent if the security forces’ aggressive response continues.

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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IWPR Women’s Prize for Journalism

IWPR’s inaugural award for outstanding journalism recognises the work of our network of women reporters worldwide. Working in often challenging environments, these journalists face additional threats such as harassment, gender-based violence and systemic misogyny.

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