IWPR

Premier Halts Media Debate of Personal Law Draft

01-Jul-09

Speaker Refuses MPs' Demand to Question Ministers

01-Jul-09

Syrian Editorial Slams Western Interference in the Region

01-Jul-09

Return of US Ambassador to Damascus Improves Bilateral Relations

01-Jul-09

Syrian Media Condemn Western Intervention in Iran

01-Jul-09

Baath Party Debates Renewal

Ruling party confronts gap between socialist theory and need to modernise.

Turkmen Academics Welcome Science Reforms

Caucasus: May ‘09

Journalists in ethnic Azeri province of Georgia say IWPR has helped to markedly improve their reporting skills.

Civil War Statues Keep Bad Memories Alive

Manuchehr Mirzoev reports from the southwestern Tajik city of Qurghonteppa where residents are deeply divided over monuments to commanders from one side of a bloody civil war.

Female Farmworkers an Oppressed Class

Because of the scale of rural emigration in search of better-paid work abroad, one rarely sees a man at work in the cotton fields of southern Tajikistan these days.