IWPR

Media Bias Claims in Georgia Exposed

Media portrays conflict areas as peaceful, endangering lives, people allege.

Pakistani Girls Hone Analytical Skills

Open Minds training programme enabling girls with little experience of thinking for themselves to air their views in the classroom.

Output Fills Gap in Northern Uganda

Demand for IWPR stories amid growing media repression and censorship.

Report Secures Aid for Veteran Peshmerga

Senior Kurdish official offers help to impoverished former fighter featured in IWPR story.

Note to Readers

Karabakh Children's Home Reveals Strains of Life

Once an orphanage, the institution has evolved to care for the child victims of a broken society.

IWPR Probes Shushi Prison Concerns

Prison authorities allow reporter in to check conditions following claims inmates are mistreated.

Azeri Fishermen Lament Vanished Shrimps

Environmentalists say crustaceans victims of pollution but demand also cited.

Hard Times in Tajikistan

One of the most visible effects of depression in Tajikistan is the sight of men hanging around in groups, hoping someone will take them on for a day’s work.

Lights Dim as Tajikistan Runs Short of Electricity

The authorities in Tajikistan have been forced to impose “electricity quotas” on consumers as a way of saving power in the run-up to winter.