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Adjusting to life in Armenia will take time. (Photo: Armine Martirosyan)

More Help Needed for Armenia's Yezidi Refugees

Local community asks for government backing for its efforts to help those arriving from Iraq.

Remembering Ammar Al Shahbander

Life of much-missed friend, colleague and family man celebrated with moving tributes.

Zaina Erhaim in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo courtesy of Zaina Erhaim)

Syria: The Journalist Who Went Back

IWPR’s Syria coordinator Zaina Erhaim speaks on CNN’s Amanpour show.

Zaina Erhaim. (Photo: Hayyan Alyousouf)

IWPR's Syria Coordinator Speaks at Women in World Event

Writer and mentor shares stage with Hollywood stars and world’s leading human rights defenders.

Participants in the Woman on the Frontline event. (Photo: IWPR)

Building a Consensus for Tolerance in the Middle East

Women’s groups from seven countries agree to work together and share expertise.

Zaina Erhaim. (Photo: Hayyan Alyousouf)

IWPR Syria Coordinator Wins Prestigious Award

Writer, trainer and mentor honoured for her courageous work in heart of conflict zone.

Syrian flag in the largely destroyed and abandoned city of Quneitra, taken in 2010. (Photo: Ed Brambley/Flickr)

Helping Syrian Journalists Stay Safe

New online resource provides one-stop-shop for reporters working in danger zones.

Journalists interview construction company staff at the new station in Akhalkalaki. (Photo: IWPR Georgia)

Caucasus Journalists Focus on New Rail Project

Cross-border railway could tie region into trade with Europe, but there's been little discussion of it locally.

Photographer from the Syrian Women's Association covering a protest in Aleppo. (Photo: Ammar Abdullah)

Commemorating World Press Freedom Day

As risks to journalists increase, fundamental belief in free media remains strong.

Impact: Middle East & North Africa

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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.