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A Palestinian boy is seen carrying food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in al-Shati refugee camp on January 13, 2009, in Gaza City. © Abid Katib/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Humanitarian Workers Under Threat from Disinformation

The real-life impact of online malign influence on human rights defenders.

A Palestinian boy is seen carrying food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in al-Shati refugee camp on January 13, 2009, in Gaza City. © Abid Katib/Getty Images

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How Malign Information Harms Humanitarian Workers

The demonisation of civil society online can have real-life repercussions.

A child leans into her mother as Metropolitan Epiphanius conducts an Orthodox Christmas service at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on January 7, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. © Ethan Swope/Getty Images

Interview

Investigating the Deportation of Ukrainian Children

Expert predicts further international arrests may be issued amid ongoing deportations.

Soldiers from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) march through Umayyad Square Damascus, Syria. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Analysis

Could Central Asian Insurgents in Syria Present a New Regional Threat?

Given the high mobility of these foreign jihadists, they could spread instability across the entire Middle East, Africa, and the global community.

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.

A militiaman poses with his weapon at an informal demobilization camp in Sevare, Mali, on July 6, 2019. The camp is run by a businessman with the goal of shifting young Fulani men away from jihadism. © Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Why Militancy is Spreading in Mali

Award-winning journalist Issa Sikiti da Silva investigates civilian abuses in Mali.

Why Militancy is Spreading in Mali

Leaders who fail to protect their citizens while allowing ethnic hatred to spread are fueling extremism.

A new series of IWPR training videos for aspiring Afghan journalists, specifically aimed at women.

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Training a New Generation of Afghan Journalists

Afghan women journalists gain reporting skills through IWPR training videos.

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

Interview

Ukraine’s 2025 Challenges for Justice

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

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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

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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.

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Humanitarian Workers Under Threat from Disinformation

How Malign Information Harms Humanitarian Workers

Investigating the Deportation of Ukrainian Children

Could Central Asian Insurgents in Syria Present a New Regional Threat?

For Turkish Women, What’s in a Surname?

Why Militancy is Spreading in Mali

Why Militancy is Spreading in Mali

Training a New Generation of Afghan Journalists

Ukraine’s 2025 Challenges for Justice

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Interview: The War on Disinformation

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