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"Well Done" Baghdad

Event highlights inspirational tales of success from ordinary people around the country.
Building Hopes for Iraq's Elections

Events underline the importance of participation in crucial polls.
Village of Hope

How one woman was inspired to make a difference.
Iraq: Telling Stories of Female Success

How one activist is using social media to inspire change.
Mosul's First Peace Festival

Hugely popular event highlights city’s rehabilitation and recovery.

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

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

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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