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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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IWPR Editorial Comment

Iraq After US Withdrawal – End of Era or New Beginning?

Hiwa Osman

Time for Iraqi leaders to take steps to prevent regional players moving in to further their own agendas.

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Ancient Iranian Faith Survives Despite Odds

Hasan Sarbakhshian

Images of the Zoroastrian community, whose complex beliefs predate Islam and Christianity.

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Abdul Latif Sahak

Afghanistan

IWPR-trained reporter in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.

I was born on April 4, 1978 in Dehdadi district of Balkh province into a middle- class family. My father sent me to the local high school, Shahid Balkhi, in 2005 despite his own financial problems because he was keen that other members of his family should be given chances he never had. I had left school in 1996 with average grades.

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2010 Kurt Schork Awards

Schork Awards Contenders Announced

Thirteen candidates have made it onto the shortlist for this year’s Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism.

IWPR Reaching Millions of Afghan Voters

17 Sep 2010

Ground-breaking election coverage sent out to Afghans across the country during crucial election period.
Schork Awards Contenders Announced

16 Sep 2010

Thirteen candidates have made it onto the shortlist for this year’s Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism.

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Story Behind The Story

Armenian Gays Face Intolerance, Discrimination

Sara Khojoyan

When I was commissioned to write an article about Armenia’s gay community, I did not anticipate the problems I would face finding people to talk to. It took me a month to arrange the meetings I needed, each of them laboriously set up via a mutual friend.

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Special Report - ICC Review Conference: Taking Stock on the Ground

The reports - written by local journalists from DRC, Uganda and Sudan - look at the different aspects of international justice that were discussed during the review conference through the eyes of those people that the court was set up to serve.