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Cambodian children wait for medical care outside a hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on February 12, 2020.

Cambodian children wait for medical care outside a hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on February 12, 2020. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Project Highlight

Cambodia: Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation

Radio call-in show unpicks fake news and conspiracy theories around the virus.

Minela Jašar and Ajdin Kamber have won a prestigious award for their reporting on the country’s marginalised and vulnerable groups.

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.

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.

A woman wearing a face mask walks in Havana on September 14, 2020.

A woman wearing a face mask walks in Havana on September 14, 2020. © Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Covering Coronavirus in Cuba

Regime mismanagement and fake news continues to fuel the crisis.

Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at an event at Barber Institute of Fine Art on November 29, 2015 in Birmingham, England.

Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at an event at Barber Institute of Fine Art on November 29, 2015 in Birmingham, England. © Richard Stonehouse/Getty Images

Malala's IWPR Roots

Global pioneer for girls’ education began her campaigning work with flagship Pakistan project.

Anti-government protesters in Kiev calling for ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union, February 2014.

Anti-government protesters in Kiev calling for ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union, February 2014. © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Fighting Corruption in Ukraine

Specialist guide proving key to stamping out graft.

Focus on Nigeria: Dayo Aiyetan

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 Central Asia: Ilkham Umarahunov

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 Lebanon: Vanessa Bassil

The founder & president of the Media Association for Peace in Lebanon which works with IWPR on Aswat Horra, a regional freedom of expression project.

Featured Impact

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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