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Letter from the Executive Director

Welcome to IWPR’s new online environment.

It is a perilous moment for news – and for news gatherers. While international media see their business models collapse, the danger for journalists in the field has never been greater. Yet we re-launch our website with radical hope

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Calling Iran’s Bluff

Ali Reza Eshraghi

Whatever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s motives for offering talks with President Barack Obama, a meeting could open the way to progress in US-Iranian relations.

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Hejab at the Seaside in Iran

Javad Montazeri

Women required to maintain strict dress requirements when swimming in public.

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Azeri Human Traffickers Target Vulnerable Women

Nigar Musayeva

After an IWPR article about domestic violence (New Law to Tackle Domestic Assault in Azerbaijan), I attended a round- table discussion on the issue. It was a rare chance to discuss this taboo subject, and among the themes were the problems of those in the highest-risk group: prostitutes.

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Reporting Justice: A Handbook on Covering War Crimes Courts

Whatever drives you to report on justice, you need to have the tools to do it. That is what this handbook sets out to provide. It is intended for journalists undertaking one of the most challenging, important and potentially rewarding of tasks: reporting on the trials of war crimes suspects or investigating war crimes on the ground.

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I was born on April, 16, 1983 in Khanlar, which is in Azerbaijan, where my grandmother was an obstetrician at a maternity hospital. I spent my childhood in Yerevan, but when I went to school at seven my family moved to a village called Hayanist about seven kilometres away.

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