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Demonstrators participate in an anti-Lukashenko rally on August 18, 2020 in Minsk, Belarus.

Leading Belarus dissident to address IWPR discussion on regional repression.

Can Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Conflict Spiral Into War?

Following the worse fighting in years, experts warn that states need to urgently build trust and solve humanitarian issues.

Sherdor Madrasa in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. © Teseum/Flickr

Upcoming Event

Central Asia: Saving Our Cities

Highlighting how citizen activism can protect the region’s housing and heritage.

The event brought together prominent Kazak and international NGO representatives, officials, public figures, entrepreneurs and philanthropists on April 22 and 23. © CABAR/IWPR

IWPR Central Asia Director Addresses Regional Forum

Event hears how cooperation between civil society and media is both possible and beneficial.

Recording a podcast. © Freepic

World Press Freedom Day 2021

Podcasts Boom in Central Asia

Format leaves presenters at liberty to cover areas often suppressed in other types of media.

Project Highlight

IWPR Holds First-Ever Turkmenistan Training

Workshops included digital journalism, media literacy and fact checking.

The winner of the EUMM Special Prize Ketevan Magradze pictured with Beka Bajelidze, Director of IWPR Caucasus, and Marek Szczygieł the Ambassador for the EUMM Monitoring Mission in Georgia. © Delegation of the European Union to Georgia

Georgia: Journalist Wins Peace Prize With First-Ever Article

Winner hopes to encourage more constructive dialogue around a sensitive issue.

Project Highlight

IWPR Investigation Highlighted by Global Network

Article revealed massive corruption in Tajikistan’s car safety system.

Minela Jašar and Ajdin Kamber have won a prestigious award for their reporting on the country’s marginalised and vulnerable groups. © Photos: Jašar by TV N1; Kamber from personal archive.

Reporting Impact

IWPR Trainees Receive Bosnian Prize

Reporters honoured for work on those facing discrimination and exclusion.

Impact: Europe & Eurasia

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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

Featured Impact

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.

Transnational Repression in Central Asia