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Longtime IWPR partner Libyan Organisation for Development hosts a training for 30 women social workers in Benghazi.

Move follows efforts to ensure the inclusion of mental health support in disaster planning.

Amal Alnani is the founder of I am a Libyan Woman and My Son is a Foreigner (ILSF), an organisation campaigning for the rights of women and young people disadvantaged by a loophole in Libya’s citizenship law. © Amal Alnani

Project Highlight

Libya: Women’s NGO Head Inspired to Run for Office

IWPR colleague poised to take her activism forward into the world of politics.

IWPR partner For You Libya Group (FYLG) hosted a dozen participants from Tripoli who came up with apps to help combat gender-based violence, support children’s home schooling and enable female entrepreneurs to market their products remotely. © For You Libya Group (FYLG)

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Libya: Coding Camp Empowers Young Women

Hackathon produces hi-tech solutions to some of the challenges thrown up by Covid-19.

Trainees with IWPR's “Women in Media” training course at The University of Tripoli Media Lab, October 2017. © IWPR

World Press Freedom Day 2021

Libya’s MediaLab Generation

Scheme has produced professionally trained journalists and developed public and private partnerships across the country.

Protesters wearing bandages crossing their mouths stand holding up signs showing the faces of two slain journalists captioned in Arabic "martyrs of the word" during an anti-government demonstration, also calling for freedom of the press, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on January 17, 2020. © Hussein FALEH / AFP via Getty Images

World Press Freedom Day 2021

Iraq: Radio Stations Fear for Future

Hard-won freedoms may be at risk if outlets attempt to hold politicians and officials to account.

Press Release

Voices for Change for Independent Media in Libya

Libyan media outlets train to produce higher quality and more balanced journalism.

Female medic at a hospital. © M Agency/Shutterstock

International Women's Day 2021

Libya: Caught Between Conflict and Covid-19

Research highlights unique gender component of ongoing economic and health emergency.

Impact: Middle East & North Africa

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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.

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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.”

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.

Libyan Officials Vow to Protect Women’s Rights