Driving Change
IWPR helps build more stable, just and inclusive societies
IWPR’s work focuses on three critical priorities
Producing Factual Content to Combat Disinformation
Disinformation is the challenge of our time, dividing societies, driving conflict and depriving citizens of their rights. IWPR’s central mission is to increase the production of content by local reporters and rights researchers to provide reliable content, build trust within societies and contribute to positive solutions.
Building Sustainable Local Groups
IWPR provides financial support, strategic and planning guidance and management advice and mentoring to help local media and civic groups remain vibrant, independent and sustainable to drive positive change for the long-term.
Tackling Human Rights Challenges
IWPR partners with reporters, rights advocates and local groups to mobilise the power of information to tackle critical challenges from violent extremist hate speech, to women’s and minority rights to disinformation and COVID-19 responses.
DRIVING CHANGE CASE STUDY #1
IWPR has strengthened local voices in more than 70 countries, helping them to build more stable, just and inclusive societies.
Covering War Crimes in Ukraine
IWPR reporting project provides unique insight and access to historic opportunity to see justice done for wartime atrocities.
IWPR’s Justice Report is providing unique and in-depth coverage of ongoing and unprecedented efforts to see those responsible for war crimes in Ukraine brought to trial.
“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
Ukraine is a Turning Point for International Justice
World must learn lessons from previous processes to ensure accountability – or risk facilitating future conflicts.
How Will US Support Justice for Ukraine?
Options “run the gamut” from financial backing to amending domestic legislation to facilitate prosecutions.
Ukraine: Prosecuting the Crime of Genocide
“Russia's goal is the destruction of the national group of Ukrainians.”
DRIVING CHANGE CASE STUDY #2
In the world’s most challenging environments, IWPR empowers responsible journalists and innovative civic activists, leveraging their voices to promote debate and mobilise citizen action.
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
Malala at age 12 talks about taking part in IWPR's Open Minds Pakistan project.
“We are very proud of our trainee and profoundly motivated by her story, which shows the power of a single, determined local voice to have truly global impact.”
Anthony Borden IWPR Founder & Executive Director
Nobel Prize Recognises Malala's Heroic Struggle for Education
Her story shows how a single, determined local voice can have truly global impact.
Shooting a Free Spirit
Malala Yousafzai showed the way for young Pakistanis to speak freely, and Taleban extremists reacted with the only methods they know.
Young Journalist Inspires Fellow Students
Rising star of youth journalism inspires fellow students in Pakistan.
DRIVING CHANGE CASE STUDY #3
IWPR extends sustainable constituencies for positive change, through new skills, networks, technology and social media, and other innovations.
Georgia: FGM Banned After IWPR Investigation
The Georgian government criminalised female genital mutilation (FGM) following an IWPR investigation that revealed the practice was ongoing in the east of the country.
The authorities and human rights groups had all been previously unaware that ethnic Avars in the Kvareli district routinely carried out FGM on young girls. In response to IWPR’s article, an immediate campaign both outlawed the practice and raised public awareness.
“The Koran does not say that circumcision is a duty.”
Yasin Aliyev Mufti of the Georgian Muslims
"Raising awareness about FGM as a gross form of violence, and education about the health and other implications of FGM on girls and women is as important as banning such practice by law."
Erika Kvapilova UN Women
