In Abu Hamad, on the banks of the Nile, verdant orchards, gardens and fields once produced a bounty of dates, citrus fruits, winter grains and cereals for the towns and cities of eastern Sudan, includ...

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In Abu Hamad, on the banks of the Nile, verdant orchards, gardens and fields once produced a bounty of dates, citrus fruits, winter grains and cereals for the towns and cities of eastern Sudan, includ...

A new AI-assisted moderation tool aims to combat digital hate speech against women in Armenia’s increasingly febrile online landscape.“We are seeing more hate, more coordinated attacks and more people...

On 24 June 2026, Venezuela was struck by two powerful earthquakes just 39 seconds apart, devastating the northern coast and Caracas and leaving more than 6,000 people dead and tens of thousands injure...

Hate speech has become an increasingly significant challenge in Libya, where years of political division, armed conflict and social fragmentation have deepened mistrust among communities. Inflammatory...

Nasima’s labour pains began in late December 2025. She was 30 years old, a mother of two, living in a remote village in Ashtarlay district, Daikundi province. Like many women in rural Afghanistan, she...

At around noon on July 15, 2025, Ahmad Mowaffak Arabi left his small shop in Umm al-Zaytoun village in Suwayda governorate to visit his sister in the regional capital. The 32-year-old took his motorcy...

THE BIG PICTUREJuly 11 marks the international day of commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, when more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered after Bosnian Serb forces overran the encla...

THE BIG PICTUREThis week, we highlight the work of Elmira Shagabudtdinova, a Ukrainian journalist covering crucial war crimes justice processes in her southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia.

Welcome to IWPR’s Frontline Update, your go-to source to hear from journalists and local voices at the front lines of conflict.THE BIG PICTURECuba’s ongoing energy crisis continues to have a major imp...

We make a distinction between soft power and hard power, but let’s remember, especially in the city of Gdańsk, of all cities, that soft power is real power, and that’s really what matters.So, it is a ...

Welcome to IWPR’s Frontline Update, your go-to source to hear from journalists and local voices at the front lines of conflict.THE BIG PICTUREThe UN’s latest Global Trends report reveals that there we...

There are so many aspects of war that headlines about air strikes and harrowing pictures of casualties do not reveal. We cannot understand war without knowledge of what happens after the bombs explode...

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Welcome to IWPR’s Frontline Update, your go-to source to hear from journalists and local voices at the front lines of conflict. THE BIG PICTURE As the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the US enters...

These days, central Tehran’s busy Tajrish Square market packs up early. Those who come looking for seasonal wild garlic or rhubarb leave before the evening call to prayer, surrendering Tajrish to the ...

Request for QuotationsRFQ number: PRF# 177-004 Issuance date: 02/02/2026Description: IWPR is looking for a consultant to provide support to media outlets to produce high-impact multimedia content whil...

Project: Building Resilience in the Eastern Neighbourhood (BREN) IICall type: Open competitionWho can apply: Any registered Civil-Society Organisation (CSO) including media in Armenia Closing date: Mo...

Dante and Edna Largo have run a local cafe in east Manila for the last 26 years, selling breakfast and lunch to a devoted customer base from nearby homes, schools and offices.“It is through this busin...

Welcome to IWPR’s Frontline Update, your go-to source to hear from journalists and local voices at the front lines of conflict. THE BIG PICTURE The ongoing Iran conflict and instability around the Str...

Welcome to IWPR’s Frontline Update, your go-to source to hear from journalists and local voices at the front lines of conflict. THE BIG PICTURE This week, European leaders gathered in Yerevan in a lan...

The state of independent journalism in Cuba could be summarised thus: it’s illegal - but it happens.The regime has formalised censorship through measures such as the 2019 law which penalises those who...

The US-Israel war against Iran has produced unprecedented and harrowing restrictions on the flow of information within the country.War, by its very nature, disrupts or halts the flow of information to...

On World Press Freedom Day we highlight the local voices continuing to bear witness to truth in the face of repression, danger and trauma.

A practical guide to conflict-sensitive reporting on war crimes in Ukraine, featuring local voices and a foreword by Beth Van Schaack. Master best practices today.

A former Ukrainian Navy serviceman from Crimea who defected to the enemy has been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for war crimes and treason.The investigation established that Ivan Savchen...

In March 2022, during the occupation of the village of Dovzhyk in the Chernihiv region, Russian soldiers took three brothers - Yevhen, Dmytro and Mykola Kulichenkos – to a nearby wood where a grave ha...

Civic space and reliable information have long been among the first casualties of conflict.War has historically provided cover for state actors and armed groups alike to launch violent campaigns again...

In a coffee shop on a chill Ramadan evening, three Iranian friends scroll through their phones and share the latest news with each other. The clink of cups mixes with the constant buzz of phone alerts...

The Iran conflict is the latest in a series of successive crises reshaping the geopolitical and economic landscape of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, long viewed as a periphery and buffer zone betwe...

As the military confrontation between the US, Israel and Iran continues to escalate, analysts warn of the far-reaching consequences for the Russian-Ukrainian front.Although the new conflict has exacer...

Safaa al-Farmawi did not expect that a trip to collect food would cost her daughter’s life. The 35-year-old mother of seven lost her eldest daughter, Ghazal, 16, last June after she was shot while the...

Yesterday morning, I looked at my son and realized that at his age, I was already living through war in Lebanon. Nearly 37 years later, we are still facing the same reality.Back then, we believed that...

Civic space and reliable information have long been among the first casualties of conflict.War has historically provided cover for state actors and armed groups alike to launch violent campaigns again...