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The event brought together prominent Kazak and international NGO representatives, officials, public figures, entrepreneurs and philanthropists on April 22 and 23. © CABAR/IWPR

IWPR Central Asia Director Addresses Regional Forum

Event hears how cooperation between civil society and media is both possible and beneficial.

Recording a podcast. © Freepic

World Press Freedom Day 2021

Podcasts Boom in Central Asia

Format leaves presenters at liberty to cover areas often suppressed in other types of media.

Project Highlight

IWPR Holds First-Ever Turkmenistan Training

Workshops included digital journalism, media literacy and fact checking.

The winner of the EUMM Special Prize Ketevan Magradze pictured with Beka Bajelidze, Director of IWPR Caucasus, and Marek Szczygieł the Ambassador for the EUMM Monitoring Mission in Georgia. © Delegation of the European Union to Georgia

Georgia: Journalist Wins Peace Prize With First-Ever Article

Winner hopes to encourage more constructive dialogue around a sensitive issue.

Project Highlight

IWPR Investigation Highlighted by Global Network

Article revealed massive corruption in Tajikistan’s car safety system.

Minela Jašar and Ajdin Kamber have won a prestigious award for their reporting on the country’s marginalised and vulnerable groups. © Photos: Jašar by TV N1; Kamber from personal archive.

Reporting Impact

IWPR Trainees Receive Bosnian Prize

Reporters honoured for work on those facing discrimination and exclusion.

Training session in social media for imams in Kyzylorda, city in south-central Kazakstan. © CABAR/IWPR

Central Asia: Imams Turn Influencers

Ground-breaking IWPR programme trains moderate clerics to combat extremist propaganda online.

Impact: Europe & Eurasia

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IWPR project manager who coordinated a project aimed at preventing violent extremism and training religious leaders in how to use social media to communicate with young people.

Focus on Central Asia: Ilkham Umarahunov

Featured Impact

IWPR's champion Abrar Al-Ani (L) with the Anbar Community Police during Awareness Campaign on Covid_19 in Al Ramadi Market. © Photo courtesy of A. Al-Ani

Iraqi Champions Fight Coronavirus Crisis

Social media campaigners raise awareness and encourage resilience in meeting Covid-19 challenge.

A member of audience going through the report.

How Central Asia Gets Its News

Ground-breaking IWPR research shows how access to information is changing.

Adis Hasakovic (right) and Merdijana Sadovic (middle) at a round table in Sarajevo

Bosnia: Online Misogyny on the Rise

Study shows that sexist comments appear regularly across a range of digital media.

Syria: Female Prisoners Speak Out

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

Naqiba Barakzai is honoured on World Press Freedom Day.

Afghanistan: IWPR Trainee Hailed for Groundbreaking Investigation

Story on the taboo of sexual rejection amongst Afghan women wins numerous accolades.

Rosemary Olufemi, senior programme officer at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting. © Photo courtesy of R. Olufemi

Nigeria: Working Together for Change

How a collaborative approach is boosting human rights advocacy and defending social justice.