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Edna Auma has run for office in the last two local elections but without success. (Photo: Robert Wanjala)

Kenyan Women Face Obstacles in Public Life

Why female participation in politics is so low in Nairobi’s largest slum.

A still from the Rise and Shine Rwanda TV programme.

Rwandan TV Launches First Independently Produced News Show

Rise and Shine Rwanda breakfast show developed by Rwandan creative incubation project, supported by IWPR and aired on Rwandan national TV.

Koch FM in Nairobi's Korogocho slum tackled the issue of rape and the many obstacles to justice. (Photo: Matthew Rhodes/IWPR)

IWPR Radio Debate Addresses Sexual Violence in Nairobi Slum

Show highlights failings in the justice process and provides vital information on reporting crime.

IWPR training session in Nigeria lead by Dayo Aiyetan. (Photo: IWPR)

Nigerian, Sierra Leonean Journalists Learn Investigative Skills

Participants encouraged to write in-depth pieces for their own media outlets.

New Facing Justice reporters (left to right) Alex Otto, Oroma Gladys and Cho Woo Willy. (Photo: IWPR)

Uganda: New Trainees for Facing Justice Radio

Reporters will be mentored as they work on programmes for an audience of four million.

An actor plays a rapist in a role play situation during a training session on interviewing suspects in sexual violence cases. (Photo: Melanie Gouby)

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Face a La Justice Changing Attitudes in DRC

Emphasis on training female journalists helps highlight sexual violence and other human rights abuses in east of country.

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Forensic investigators remove an exhumed body from what is believed to be a mass grave on October 11, 2022 in Lyman, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. © Carl Court/Getty Images

Covering War Crimes in Ukraine

IWPR reporting project provides unique insight and access to historic opportunity to see justice done for wartime atrocities.

Syria: Female Prisoners Speak Out

“It is not fair for us to face injustice both inside and outside prison.”

Rescue workers and forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery on September 21, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. The bodies will be examined by forensic officials for possible war crimes. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies

Project aims to help conflict journalists meet evidential standards that will allow their work to support future justice processes.

The reporters of Black Box, (l to r) Stefan Bejan, Stela Mihailovici, Mariana Rata and Ilie Gulca, the investigative journalism programme of Moldova's independent television channel TV8, tracked tangled routes for money flowing to offshore companies from Moldova. © Black Box

The Cashier of Dubai: Investigative Journalism with Impact

Moldova story leads to international legal cooperation in anti-corruption case.

Latin America accounts for half of journalists killed globally each year, with media workers facing dangers including complex government-sponsored attacks and threats from powerful international criminal organisations as well as censorship. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Latin America: Security Support Provides Media “Lifeline”

Physical, psycho-emotional and digital safety consultations allow vulnerable media workers to gain key skills.

IWPR-supported initiative showed that Venezuelan government was heavily involved in distributing pro-regime disinformation. They also identified a network of social media accounts posing as media outlets that existed exclusively to promote Chavista issues in the global media. © Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images

Combating Disinformation in Venezuela

Media and NGO alliance reveals extent to which the issue affects country’s online information space.

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Founder and executive director of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting in Nigeria, and IWPR partner on a project bringing media and civil society together to fight human rights abuses.

Focus on Nigeria: Dayo Aiyetan