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Editorial Comment
Kurdish Media Freedoms Still Under Threat
Mariwan Hama-Saeed
20 Jun 11
Death of journalist and subsequent crackdown on press freedom have raised serious questions about claim that region is democratic model for rest of country.
Iraqi journalists at IWPR's Iraq office in Baghdad take part in a webchat with Al-Jazeera journalist Ayman Mohyeldin, during which they discussed citizen journalism and social media. (Photo: Haider Khudhr/IWPR)
Iraqis Explore New Journalism Horizons
IWPR
31 May 11
Iraq: Apr/May ‘11
Farah Ali
23 May 11
IWPR practical and financial support has helped Iraqi media organisations to overcome problems and prosper.
Iraqi Media Equipped to Move On
Farah Ali
23 May 11
IWPR practical and financial support has helped Iraqi media organisations to overcome problems and prosper.
Editorial Comment
Iraqi Freedoms Threatened by Internet Restrictions
Abeer Mohammed
23 May 11
Online access remains a big problem for Iraqis, undermining their right to freedom on expression.
Al-Qaeda has carried out hundreds of devastating assaults in Iraq including this April 2010 car bomb attack outside the Iranian embassy in Baghdad. Iraq stepped up security after Osama bin Laden was killed earlier this week. (Photo: Metrography)
Iraqis' Mixed Emotions Over Bin Laden's Death
Hazim al-Sharaa
6 May 11
Al-Qaeda leader is not thought to have ever set foot in the country, but it became one of his main battlegrounds.
Iraq: Feb/Mar '11 Part II
IWPR
4 May 11
IWPR human rights conference links journalists, activists, lawyers and officials.
IWPR Insight
Iraqi Media Freedoms Under Threat
Mariwan Hama-Saeed
19 Apr 11
Shia Iraqis took to the streets last month to call for regime change in Bahrain, where the government has been accused of human rights abuses in its crackdown on the opposition. Iraqi support for Bahrain's Shia majority has drawn controversy domestically and angered the Gulf states, which have called for the upcoming Iraq-hosted Arab summit to be cancelled. (Photo: IWPR)
Storm Over Iraqi Shia Support for Bahraini Opposition
Basim al-Shara
15 Apr 11
Iraq’s Sunni politicians and Gulf states express disquiet at the criticism of the Bahrain authorities’ crackdown.
The remnants of a statue of Saddam Hussein, famously pulled down on April 9, 2003, have become one of Baghdad’s landmarks. The statue stood in Firdos square in front of the14 July mosque. Firdos square has served as one of the primary locations for protests over a plethora of issues in recent years. (Photo: Hazim al-Sharaa/IWPR)
Photo Essay
Baghdad - Eight Years After Saddam
IWPR contributors
15 Apr 11
Progress has been slow, with the country strill riven by social, economic and security problems.

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The adulation heaped on the Nobel laureate recalled the treatment of Mother Teresa. But her failure to act on the Rohingya crisis has destroyed the myth


By Alan Davis, IWPR Asia & Eurasia Director