Institute for War and Peace Reporting

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Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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MottoGiving Voice, Driving Change
Established1991 (33 years ago)
Legal statusNon-profit
HeadquartersLondon, UK
DirectorsAnthony Borden
Website iwpr.net  

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an independent nonprofit organization that claims to train and provide publishing opportunities for professional and citizen journalists. IWPR is registered in the UK as a charity (charity reg. no: 1027201, company reg. no: 2744185); the US under IRS Section 501(c)(3) and NL as a charitable foundation.

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History

IWPR was founded in 1991 under the name Yugofax. [1] Initially it was a newsletter that reported on the troubling developments throughout the Balkans from a balanced perspective. As the conflict developed into an all out war, Yugofax newsletter changed its name to Balkan War Report.

Eventually, in late 1995, after the Dayton Peace Accord was signed ending the war in Bosnia, the newsletter expanded its area of focus to other global trouble spots (initially mainly focusing on ex-Soviet republics) and adjusted its name to War Report.

In 1998, the newsletter changed its name again to the Institute for War & Peace Reporting and registered as a non-governmental organization.

Deaths of members

On June 7, 2007, IWPR journalist Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, age 44, was murdered by gunmen as she left her home in Mosul. [2] Sahar was posthumously honoured in November 2007 [3] by the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism and by the Amnesty International Media Awards in 2008 [4] for her story, Honour Killing Sparks Fears of New Iraqi Conflict, published by IWPR in May 2007, about the brutal murder of a young Yezidi woman in the town of Bashika.

On May 2, 2015, the previous IWPR Iraq director, Ammar Al Shahbander, was killed in a car bomb attack, along with up to 17 other people. [5] [6]

On October 18, 2015, the IWPR acting Iraq director, Jacqueline Anne Sutton (a.k.a. Jacky Sutton), age 50, was found hanged in a bathroom stall of Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport. She had been on her way to Irbil. [5] [7]

On 6 July 2020, Hisham al-Hashimi was seriously wounded outside his home in Zayouna, Baghdad from an attack by gunmen on 3 motorbikes. He died in Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital shortly after arrival. [8] [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)". ecoi.net. European Country of Origin Information Network.
  2. ↑ Borden, Anthony (June 29, 2007). "Sahar Hussein al-Haideri". The Guardian. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Kurt Schork Awards 2007" (PDF). Kurt Schork Memorial Fund. 14 November 2007.
  4. ↑ "Amnesty announces Media Awards 2008 winners". www.amnesty.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  5. 1 2 Barrett, David; Finnigan, Lexi (October 19, 2015). "Friends of Jacky Sutton, former BBC journalist found dead in Istanbul airport, voice fears over 'cover up'" . Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Gienger, Viola (May 6, 2015). "Tribute to Iraqi Peacebuilder Ammar Al-Shahbander". usip.org. United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Hartley-Parkinson, Richard (October 19, 2015). "British journalist found hanged in airport toilet 'after missing flight to Iraq'". Metro. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Leading Iraqi security expert shot dead in Baghdad". BBC News. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  9. ↑ Najim, Jomana Karadsheh, Arwa Damon, Hamdi Alkhshali and Aqeel (6 July 2020). "Prominent researcher of jihadi groups shot dead in Baghdad". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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