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Through a series of workshops in August, Roma women community mediators in Chișinău strengthened their skills in legal advocacy, peace and security promotion, inclusive governance, and personal safety. These inspiring leaders are now better equipped to support and protect their communities, both online and offline. © BREN

Project Highlight

Moldova: Roma Women Driving Change

Capacity-building programme aims to increase participation in wider peace and security decision-making processes.

With its focus on empowering women and marginalised groups, BREN aims to create a ripple effect of change that extends beyond its immediate beneficiaries. © Astrig Agopian/Getty Images

Project Highlight

Armenia: Ensuring Women’s Voices Are Heard

Civil society groups participate in building future strategy for peace and security.

(l to r) IWPR Moldova country director Merdijana Sadovic, Caucasus regional director Beka Bajelidze, Mari Kapanadze of the Georgian Democracy Initiative and executive director of Moldova’s Promo-LEX NGO Ion Manole. © IWPR

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Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law and the Lessons for Moldova

Chisinau event hosts discussions on how strategising and building resilience could prevent similar developments.

Lilia Zaharova, editorial coordinator of Moldova's Independent Press Association, (pictured) and media expert Simir Krilic conducted a series of workshops on how to identify and tackle disinformation ahead of key electoral events. © IWPR

Project Highlight

Moldova: Coordination Key to Counter Disinformation

Ahead of landmark votes, addressing malicious narratives is critical for the country’s European path.

Crucial House. A short after-dinner stroll gave a chance for a rare selfie. At that point, no one yet knew whether President Biden would in fact have the chance to sign the aid bill. © Anthony Borden

Sounds of War & Peace Podcast

The Oleksandra Technique: On the Road with Ukraine's Nobel Laureate

Ukraine's Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk embarks on a speaking tour across the US.

IWPR Event

"Instead of Holding Guns, Let’s Hold Hands"

Regional event brings NGOs together to counteract conflict, instability and insecurity.

A spread from Moldova: The Disinformation Handbook.

Taylor Swift, Vladimir Putin and Kids Identifying as Cats

IWPR guide explores how malign actors use gendered narratives to disrupt societies – and lays out techniques to counter them.

Journalists, educators, local officials and communication professionals participated in the workshop on how to identify, tackle and counter gendered disinformation in Taraclia, a town in southern Moldova, with a sizable Russian-speaking Bulgarian community. © IWPR

Project Highlight

Moldova: Workshops Tackle Gender-Based Disinformation

Trainings explore how to identify, tackle and counter the phenomenon.

Project Highlight

BREN Hague Fellowship Week

“We are going to share what we learned with our community and change some lives.”

Local resident Oksana, 47-year-old, speaks to journalists next to a destroyed Russian tank in Dmytrivka village, west of Kyiv. © GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images

International Women's Day 2024

IWPR International Women's Day Journalist of the Year

Prize to honour contributors, beneficiaries and partners working in often challenging environments.

Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting internet-connected systems such as hardware, software and data from cyberthreats.

International Women's Day 2024

New Cyber Resilience Handbook for Women Rights Groups

Guide offers civil society groups practical resources to combat online threats.

Journalists Celia Pousset and Jennifer Avila. © Jennifer Avila/Twitter

IWPR’s Latin America Work Wins Multiple Journalism Awards

Investigations have been recognised by prestigious juries representing the EU, UN and national awards.

Bela Jikaevi, protagonist of the film Haztag-Seperataing the Inseparable and Keti Magradze, film director and the winner of the 2020 edition of the EUMM Special Prize for Peace Journalism. Tbilisi, Georgia, October 4, 2022. © IWPR/David Mdzinarishvili

Project Highlight

Georgia: Peace Prize Winners Tell Tales of Reconciliation

“The root of the intractability of the conflict is the alienation between the parties.”

Tamar Chkhaidze (left), communications officer at the Human Rights House Tbilisi (HRHT) and Gulo Kokhodze, director of the news outlet Southern Gates. Kokhodze collected the Lekso Award on behalf of Teimuraz Inasaridz, winner in the category of best human rights article. © IWPR/HRHT

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Lekso Award: Supporting Journalism and Human Rights

Pieces highlight plight of vulnerable and underrepresented communities in Georgia.

Preserving Media Freedom Amid Conflict

Round table highlights cases in which heavy-handed officials prevented access to information.

[left to right] Goga Aptsiauri, award-winning Georgian journalist with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Nino Natroshvili, UN Women's public relations and social media expert, and Zviad Koridze, independent media expert, discuss the importance of gender-sensitive reporting, in particular in times of war and conflicts, at a public discussion in Tbilisi on October 11, 2023.

[L to R] Goga Aptsiauri, award-winning Georgian journalist with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Nino Natroshvili, UN Women's public relations and social media expert, and Zviad Koridze, independent media expert, discuss the importance of gender-sensitive reporting, in particular in times of war and conflicts, at a public discussion in Tbilisi on October 11, 2023. © IWPR/Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics

Project Highlight

Gender-Sensitive Reporting in Times of War

New guidelines aim to support journalists in producing ethical conflict coverage.

Frontline Updates

Covering Coronavirus in Cuba

IWPR’s network of reporters in Cuba are defying one of the most repressive media environments in the world to expose mass government disinformation over the Covid-19 crisis.

A woman wearing a face mask reads a newspaper in Havana, Cuba on July 29, 2020. © YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images

"These stories can be presented as the ultimate testimonies of the difficult times experienced by all Cubans."

Yusufhon Zakaria, a 38-year-old Kyrgyz imam whose support for girls’ education has earned him a huge following on Instagram and Youtube. © Y. Zakaria

Central Asia: Imams Turn Influencers

IWPR is training a new generation of social media influencers across Central Asia to spread tolerance and counter violent extremism.

"I was able to persuade families that it was a good thing to give their girls an education."

Yusufhon Zakaria Kyrgyz imam

Covering War Crimes in Ukraine

IWPR reporting project provides unique insight and access to historic opportunity to see justice done for wartime atrocities.

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

“IWPR's Justice Report is extremely relevant for western audiences, both professional and the general public… [and] a source of factual information and analysis.”

Iryna Skosar Associate Professor, Odesa University Law Academy

Malala at age 12 talks about taking part in IWPR's Open Minds Pakistan project.

Malala's IWPR Roots

Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai began her campaigning work as a 12-year-old IWPR trainee in a Pakistani programme empowering young people through public debate and dialogue.

“In IWPR's Open Minds, we students learned how to express ourselves and the problems of others through the media. We learned so much in the trainings.”

Malala Yousafzai Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate

Project Highlights

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 Nigeria: Dayo Aiyetan

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

Focus on Lebanon: Vanessa Bassil

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