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Rights of Internally Displaced People

Spotlight on experiences of Kurds forced to leave shelled border villages.

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Rights of Internally Displaced People

Uprooted families in rural Kurdistan tell of struggle to get by.

First Person

Al-Qaeda Turns to Mafia Tactics in Mosul

Extortion racket feeds insurgency in volatile northern Iraqi city.

Baghdad Urged to Tackle Water Crisis

UN report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since 2005 due to water shortages.

A lone boatman crosses the Karma river, a tributary of the Tigris, some 15 kilometres north of the city of Basra. For centuries, the people of Basra and surrounding communities have depended on the waterways for their livelihood. Now a range of issues - from over-fishing to environmental problems - is threatening their way of life. (Photo: Ali Abu Iraq)

Basra Fishermen See Bleak Future

They lament demise of their once-thriving livelihood, hit hard by combination of ecological and industrial problems.

Editorial Comment

Putting Policy Before Personality in Iraq

There’s a need to build a national consensus over issues that are important for the Iraqi voter over next four years.

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Disabled People's Rights

Assessment of care provision, illustrated by moving personal story.

Feature One

Rights of Children

Insight into difficulties facing divorced parents trying to bring up children.

Feature Two

Disabled People's Rights

Land-mine victim talks about her daily struggle to make a living.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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