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Iraq: Women Plant Trees for Peace

Powerful gesture brings volunteers together to launch empowerment campaign.
Syria: La Tifti (Don't Judge) Video Series

Five part series on conflict sensitive and ethical journalism.
IWPR Champions Bring Message of Love to Marginalised Villages

Activists work to break down stereotypes and celebrate co-existence.
IWPR Syria Launches Conflict Sensitive Reporting Manual

Handbook uses real-life stories to illustrate common pitfalls.
Iraq: Bringing Faith Communities Together

Grassroots efforts promote solidarity between members of different religions.

Women of Al-Namrood planting trees for International Women's Day. (Photo: Abdulla al Ahmad/IWPR)

Project Highlight

Iraq: Women Plant Trees for Peace

IWPR

1 Apr 19

Powerful gesture brings volunteers together to launch empowerment campaign.

La Tifti (Don't Judge) - a series of five videos highlighting the main problems faced by reporters covering conflict.

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Syria: La Tifti (Don't Judge) Video Series

IWPR

12 Mar 19

Five part series on conflict sensitive and ethical journalism.

IWPR Champions Jameel and Nazek taking part in distributing messages of peace and candies on the families. (Photo: IWPR)

Project Highlight

IWPR Champions Bring Message of Love to Marginalised Villages

IWPR Iraq

26 Feb 19

Activists work to break down stereotypes and celebrate co-existence.

IWPR Team who wrote and filmed episodes of the conflict sensitive press manual. (Photo: IWPR)

Project Highlight

IWPR Syria Launches Conflict Sensitive Reporting Manual

IWPR

20 Feb 19

Handbook uses real-life stories to illustrate common pitfalls.

IDP children receive toys from Mama Noel. (Photo: Naji Hajo Ellaw)

Project Highlight

Iraq: Bringing Faith Communities Together

IWPR

12 Feb 19

Grassroots efforts promote solidarity between members of different religions.

Children attend a summer course in a Douma school that offers accelerated learning courses to those who missed out on their education due to the war in Syria. (Photo: Syria Stories)

Achieving My Dream of Learning English

10 Oct 18

Defying conservative customs to continue studying.

A group of displaced people wait at dawn at a train station. (Photo: Ahmad Khalil)

An Unfriendly Welcome

Doha Abbas

10 Oct 18

A woman follows her fighter husband to live among strangers.

Syrian activists and IWPR staff with representatives of the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs. (Photo: IWPR)

Project Highlight

IWPR Brings Female Syrian Activists to the Netherlands

IWPR

4 Oct 18

Women seize opportunity to debunk myths surrounding the conflict.

Project Highlight

IWPR Supporting Libyan NGOs

IWPR Libya

2 May 18

Films make it easy to share valuable educational material anywhere and anytime.

A group of refugees returning to northeast Syria. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

A Safe Haven For Those Fleeing IS

24 Apr 18

Displaced people share hopes for their return home.

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IWPR gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change

IWPR supports local reporters, citizen journalists and civil society activists in three dozen countries in conflict, crisis and transition around the world. We contribute to peace and good governance by strengthening the ability of media and civil society to speak out. We do this by training, mentoring and providing platforms for professional and citizen reporters; building up the institutional capacity of media and civic groups; and working with independent and official partners to remove barriers to free expression, robust public debate and citizen engagement.

Promoting Free Expression: IWPR builds the skills of professional and citizen journalists working in traditional media and in social and new media.
Strengthening Accountability: IWPR supports the capacity of civil society and human rights groups to more effectively advocate for government and institutional accountability.
Building Inclusive Societies: IWPR supports peace and reconciliation in conflict zones around the world.

Information about our projects

Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan & South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Asia: Afghanistan, Burma, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

Europe / Eurasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balkans, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Latin America: Cuba, Regional
Middle East / North Africa: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia