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IWPR's Caucasus programme director Beka Bajelidze at the launch event for Newsrooms Countering Disinformation film held in Tbilisi. © David Mdzinarishvili/IWPR

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Helping Newsrooms Counter Disinformation

IWPR online course helps prevent local media from facilitating fake news.

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.

Demonstrators participate in an anti-Lukashenko rally on August 18, 2020 in Minsk, Belarus. © Misha Friedman/Getty Images

Upcoming Event

Transnational Repression in Central Asia

Leading Belarus dissident to address IWPR discussion on regional repression.

Facebook is by far Cambodia’s leading social media, with more than 90 per cent of the population on the network. © Omar Havana/Getty Images

Project Highlight

Cambodia: Making Social Media Work for Journalists

Training focuses on producing appealing content while upholding international standards of reporting.

IWPR Discussion

Disinformation and Democracy: Can Journalism Up Its Game?

Highlights of a discussion between Janine di Giovanni and Peter Pomerantsev.

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)

Project Highlight

Libya: Coding Camp Empowers Young Women

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

Project Highlight

Can Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Conflict Spiral Into War?

Following the worse fighting in years, experts warn that states need to urgently build trust and solve humanitarian issues.

Sherdor Madrasa in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. © Teseum/Flickr

Upcoming Event

Central Asia: Saving Our Cities

Highlighting how citizen activism can protect the region’s housing and heritage.

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.

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. © 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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Helping Newsrooms Counter Disinformation

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

Transnational Repression in Central Asia

Cambodia: Making Social Media Work for Journalists

Disinformation and Democracy: Can Journalism Up Its Game?

Libya: Coding Camp Empowers Young Women

Can Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Conflict Spiral Into War?

Central Asia: Saving Our Cities

IWPR Central Asia Director Addresses Regional Forum

Featured Impact

Covering War Crimes in Ukraine

Syria: Female Prisoners Speak Out

The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies

The Cashier of Dubai: Investigative Journalism with Impact

Latin America: Security Support Provides Media “Lifeline”

Combating Disinformation in Venezuela

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