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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.

IWPR Discussion

Central Asia: The Power of Conflict and Protest

Online event assesses the regional lessons and consequences of political dispute.

IWPR Discussion

The Karabakh Conflict: Rising Above the Fray

IWPR discussion facilitates rare opportunity for dialogue.

IWPR training session in Kafr Nabl, Syria. (Photo: IWPR)

IWPR training session in Kafr Nabl, Syria. (Photo: IWPR)

Reporting Impact

Syria: Empowering Women Through Journalism

“We fight a criminal regime as well as society’s restrictions.”

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Project Highlight

FakeWatch Africa

Website to provide multimedia training and resources for fact-checking and investigations.

IWPR Discussion

Central Asia, Covid-19 and Climate Change

Event hears that falling oil and gas prices may be a barrier to implementing greener policies.

Online conference at the Ministry of Health. (Photo: Independent Journalism Center of Moldova)

Online conference at the Ministry of Health. (Photo: Independent Journalism Center of Moldova)

Project Highlight

Moldova: IWPR Funds Emergency Response

Initiative launched to campaign for media freedom during time of crisis.

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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