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An Iraqi man uses a computer.

Every year, nearly 2000 students graduate from the University of Technology (UT) in Baghdad with practical degrees in engineering and applied science. Yet many Iraqi graduates, doubly affected by...

Posted on March 23, 2012 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Gender
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Kurdish women

In August 2011, the Kurdistan region’s parliament passed the Law Against Domestic Violence in a bid to address the growing issue of violence against women. The law, the first of its kind in...

Posted on March 14, 2012 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Media Development
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Media Training for Iraqi Small Business Development Centers

Business development centers in Iraq are taking the first steps to better serve their business community by providing regular news and...

Iraqi journalists

“Journalism is not about what journalists want to say, it’s about what citizens have a right to know and now technology makes that possible,” Dr Hamdan Al Salim noted after one of IREX’s workshops...

It was mid-September, 2003, and still stifling hot in Erbil, when I first stepped off the small plane onto the narrow strip of pavement serving as a runway at the time. I had been warned about...

Newly released IREX audience research shows that while Iraqis continue to rely on television as their primary source for news and information, social media and mobile devices play an important...

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Like many women hungry for better representation in the Middle East, 22-year-old Dina Najem is finding her voice through social media tools, which she is actively using to promote women rights...