Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)

Parents say schools are sending youngsters into the fields despite official ban on child labour. Parents in southern Kazakstan have complained to the authorities that children are being forced to pick cotton during school hours, in defiance of a ban on child labour. ...

Christians fleeing violence in Baghdad and Mosul flock to bustling suburb of Kurdish capital. A sharply-dressed Iraqi Christian man stands on the threshold of his new shop, dangling a struggling rooster by its feet. ...

Emails and text messages seek to spark campaign over military bases. A burst of anti-Russian emails and text messages, supposedly sent from an Armenian activist group, has left Armenians baffled as to who’s behind it and what their motives are. ...

As pressure mounts to send IDPs home, little is being said about the crucial issue of land rights. Abdalla Adam, an IDP (internally displaced person) leader from Alryad camp in El Geneina, West Darfur, ...

Programme will overcome Sudanese censorship to deliver news on war crimes justice developments. Darfuris will this week tune into the first episode of an IWPR co-produced programme on local and international ...

Christians fleeing violence in Baghdad and Mosul flock to bustling suburb of Kurdish capital. A sharply-dressed Iraqi Christian man stands on the threshold of his new shop, dangling a struggling rooster by its feet. ...

Mixed motives seen in proposed move to end three-year frontier closure. There are fears in Georgia that the government’s readiness to re-open the country’s border with Russia may undermine national security, ...

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has relocated next door to Tajikistan, but analysts doubt it will move back into Central Asia. Central Asia’s most feared Islamic group is back in the news, with reports that it has regrouped in northern Afghanistan close to the border with Tajikistan. ...

Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC. Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord’s Resistance ...