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A workshop at the Voices for Change launch event in September in Accra.

Voices for Change equips partners with essential investigative and advocacy tools.

Participants in the October 4 event are working on 20 investigative reports and civil society-led campaigns on human rights violations across Kenya, ranging from gender-based violence to police brutality and female genital mutilation. © IWPR

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Kenya: Media and NGOs Join Forces to Protect Human Rights

A series of investigative reports and civil society-led campaigns will highlight violations and call for action on abuses.

There were more cases of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances in Kenya in 2021 than during any other period in history – 43 according to the latest report. © Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

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Human Rights in Africa

Six-part podcast looks at how telling crucial stories can change lives on the ground.

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Reporting Covid-19 in Africa

Fake news, conspiracies and bad science mean that many are missing out on the care they need.

A healthcare professional is vaccinated against Covid-19 on March 10, 2021 in Kampala, Uganda. © Luke Dray/Getty Images

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Covid-19: the Africa Story

What links vampires, al-Shabab and onions?

Setting up the studio for For Facts Sake quiz show. © Africa Uncensored

Kenya: the Quiz Show Combatting Covid-19

Innovative TV format helps dispel fake news and fear-mongering around the virus.

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Nigeria: How Does Faith Affect Disinformation?

Conspiracy theories spreads by religious leaders have far-reaching impact.

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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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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

Championing Justice and Human Rights in Ghana

Kenya: Media and NGOs Join Forces to Protect Human Rights

Human Rights in Africa

Reporting Covid-19 in Africa

Covid-19: the Africa Story

Kenya: the Quiz Show Combatting Covid-19

Nigeria: How Does Faith Affect Disinformation?

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Covering War Crimes in Ukraine

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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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