WHAT IS INDEPENDENT WORLD REPORT?
We are a bimonthly print magazine – a global briefing on human rights, international politics, peace and justice. We are an internationalist newsmagazine of independent human rights journalism, one that celebrates freedom and liberty. Our editorial mission is to highlight the forgotten and untold stories of the world.
FOR WHOM?
We believe that our rights, liberties and freedoms are dear to all of us. That is why we can not leave reporting and defending them solely to advocacy organisations, governments, international agencies and the corporate media.
At present, there are briefing papers from advocacy organisations that target government officials as the primary audience. There are jargon-heavy academic journals on international politics and law for researchers and lawyers. There are magazines that cover the world through the eyes of an economist or a multinational banker. Then, there is big media where pro-democracy protests in Iran or Honduras compete with the death of Michael Jackson for headline space.
Independent World Report is for people who care and want to be informed about the state of freedom and liberty around the world, for the human rights activist in all of us who needs a magazine with dedicated coverage of the world through the eyes of a humanist.
REPORTAGE AND ARTICLES
Highlights from our first issue: Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara; Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh; Swedish campaign against militarism; Libya’s war on press freedom; International campaign against foreign military bases; Chinese apartheid against Uyghurs; Interview with Craig Murray, former British diplomat who blew the whistle on torture and rendition; Forced child labour in Uzbekistan; Children in Danish asylum centres; Oppression of women under religious regimes; History of free speech in Sweden; History of the book and censorship in Iran; Prison testimony from Syria.
Highlights from our second issue: Ending arms export to Burma; Migrant and refugee children in Greece; Statelessness; Impunity in the Philippines; Rights of the domestic worker; Irom Sharmila Chanu and military repression in Manipur, India; Genocide in Bosnia and the betrayal of the ICTY; Supporting pro-democracy groups in Afghanistan; Embedded journalism in Iraq; Photo feature on hate crimes against LGBT people; Myths of neutrality: Sweden and Switzerland; Slavery, violence, war and the history of debt.
WHO WRITE FOR US?
Contributors to Independent World Report are internationally acclaimed activists, journalists, writers, photographers, filmmakers and artists: Malainin Lakhal, Naomi Pardington, Anna Andersson, Kamel Labidi, Wilbert van der Zeijden, Wasfia Nazreen, Shafiur Rahman, Amila Jašarević, Ola Larsmo, Azar Mahloujian, Faraj Bayrakdar, Ghias Aljundi, Mark Farmaner, Simone Troller, Maureen Lynch, Brian Campbell, Audrey Guichon, Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Joshua F Leach, Brian Palmer, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Arne Ruth, David Graeber.
As we are trying to build a forum where organisations engaged in the global struggle for democracy and human rights can talk directly to the people, an entire section of Independent World Report is reserved for this purpose. Organisations that have contributed to this section are: Sahrawi Journalists and Writers Union, Médecins Sans Frontières, Ofog and Avrusta, Committee to Protect Journalists, International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, Burma Campaign UK, Human Rights Watch, Refugees International, International Labor Rights Forum, Anti-Slavery International.
WHO WE ARE
Independent World Report is published by GreyType, an independent publisher based in Sweden.
Tasneem Khalil
Editor and Publisher
Dixie Eriksson
Editorial Adviser
Former Culture and Debate Editor, Nerikes Allehanda.
Lawrence Lifschultz
Editorial Advisor
Former South Asia Correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review.
Maria Modig
Editorial Adviser
Former Chairperson, Writers in Prison Committee, Swedish PEN Centre.
Ophelia Benson
Editorial Adviser
Editor, butterfliesandwheels.com
Sharmin Afsana
Managing Editor
Artist and advertising consultant.
Syeda Lubna Mehrin
Editorial Assistant
Journalist and researcher.
READER-SUPPORTED JOURNALISM
Journalism at Independent World Report is directly and solely supported by individual yearly subscriptions to our print edition. We believe that truly independent journalism requires that a news organisation answers only to its readers. This is specially important for an international platform of human rights journalism, that is we are trying to build.
WHY SUBSCRIBE?
As a subscriber, you will get each new issue of the print magazine posted to you. For €45, you can buy a yearly subscription, six issues. That is 50% off the cover price and postage.
By subscribing, you will directly contribute to our mission of reporting the forgotten and untold stories of the world. Since we are a reader-supported magazine, your subscription alone will support this independent publication. We will recognise your contribution by publishing your name in the magazine.
If you want to be a part of Independent World Report and want this magazine to succeed, we ask you to consider subscribing. Our survival as a magazine depends on the number of actual subscribers we have.
The sustainability goal for us is 1500 subscribers within one year. As soon as our subscription figure reaches 500, we plan to make all content in our magazine free for online read. That is only possible if you decide to join the list of first 500 sponsors of Independent World Report.
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Registered as a periodical with Swedish Patent and Registration Office – PRV reg. no. 28585. Print edition ISSN: 2000-3757.
