Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) , founded in 1991, is an international network for the promotion of free media. It is registered and tax exempt in the UK, US and South Africa. The head office is in London .
The IWPR maintains programs in Afghanistan , countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia ( Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan ) and reports from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Previous project fields were Belarus and the Balkans ( Macedonia , Albania , Bosnia , Herzegovina ). The focus of the work is on free reporting and human rights issues in transition countries .
Old journalists, regional (peace) experts and business people work for the network. It is funded by the foreign ministries of numerous countries (Netherlands, Sweden, USA, Great Britain) as well as by USAID and the EU . The IWPR is concerned with project support for the establishment of regional reporting, regional media analysis and observation of political influences in the project areas. It trains journalists in reporting and creates networks of media representatives, government officials and representatives of civil society through conferences and round tables on social and political issues.
The managing director of IWPR is Anthony Borden , a former independent Kosovo reporter. The network does not publish figures on financial resources, but they amount to at least 4.1 million euros per year.
The organization publishes a popular human rights and development bulletin that is available weekly by email.
In 2004 the organization founded the news agency Pajhwok Afghan News .
In 2008 Zainab Ahmed was awarded the Henri Nannen Prize on behalf of all Iraqi journalists of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) for her steadfastness and her commitment to freedom of reporting .
Members died repeatedly. In 2007 Sahar al-Haidari was shot dead in Mosul , in June 2015 the IWPR Iraq director Ammar Al Shahbander died in a car bomb in Baghdad , in October 2015 his successor Jacky Sutton in Istanbul .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ David Barrett, Lexi Finnigan: Friends of Jacky Sutton, former BBC journalist found dead in Istanbul airport, voice fears over 'cover up' . The Telegraph. October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ Mysterious death at the Istanbul airport. Die Welt, October 19, 2015, accessed October 25, 2015 .