Law reform

Women carry a giant Ukrainian flag as they walk to the cemetery during the joint military funerals for Volodymyr Semenyuk, 43, and his military comrade Serhiy Voytenko, 53, on February 24, 2025 in Fastiv, Ukraine. The same day marks three years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Russian forces continuing to make slow but steady gains across Ukraine's eastern front. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

How Ukraine is Implementing Transitional Justice

Broad range of measures are needed to hold perpetrators accountable, support survivors and establish historical truth.

9 Sep 25

Members of the forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery on September 23, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Can Ukraine Protect Witnesses to War Crimes?

Experts warn that current system is hampered by unresolved financial and legislative issues.

8 Sep 25

Parliament building in Tiraspol, the capital and largest city of Transnistria, a breakaway state within Moldova. Journalists in the autonomous region of Gaugazia and the breakaway territory of Transnistria face particular impediments to their work. © Alexander Udodov

Mounting Pressure on Moldova’s Independent Press

Experts warn that existing legislation is failing to protect media.

2 May 25

A burnt Ukrainian tank on May 31, 2022 in Kolychivka, Ukraine. Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, was an early target of Russia's offensive after its Feb. 24 invasion. © Alexey Furman/Getty Images

Poland Explores Implementing Universal Jurisdiction

Legal principle deems certain crimes so grave that they are considered to be committed against the international community as a whole.

25 Feb 25

For many women’s rights campaigners in Turkey, the difficulties women have in holding on to their maiden names is evidence of discrimination. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

For Turkish Women, What’s in a Surname?

Many campaigners argue that the mandatory surname change after marriage is evidence of institutionalised discrimination.

10 Jan 25

Military personnel look at the destroyed apartment block following an air strike, on September 24, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images

Ukraine’s 2025 Challenges for Justice

“We need to have a strategic goal so that prosecutions are real and not just in absentia.”

6 Jan 25

People gather with placards outside the Ghana High Commission in London on March 6, 2024, to protest against Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill. © Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

LGBTI Ghanaians Left With Nowhere To Turn

“The police service is the most homophobic institution; reporting only puts you at risk."

6 Dec 24

Moldova is enduring a disinformation and propaganda campaign from Russia.

Moldova: How Social Networks Amplify Anti-EU Narratives

An organised campaign of pro-Russian propaganda interests could have a major outcome on landmark referendum.

15 Oct 24

A European Union inspired mural in Chisinau, Moldova.

Moldova’s High Stakes Elections

Pivotal votes will decide whether the country continues on the path of European integration - or chooses closer relations with Russia.

14 Oct 24

A massive rally on May 11 in protest of the Russian Law where according to different estimates 170-200 thousand people gathered for the European March. © Beka Bajelidze

What’s Behind Georgia’s “Foreign Agents” Law?

IWPR Caucasus director explains the background to the controversial legislation – and what may lie ahead.

16 May 24

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