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New Wave of Violence Against Iraqi Gays

Rights advocate speaks of an "extraordinarily brutal campaign", saying hundreds may have been killed in last few months.

Basra Plagued by Mine Menace

UN critical of pace of landmine clearance, warning it’ll be decades before targets met.

Palestinian 'Survivors' in No-Man's Land

Banished from Iraq and barred from its neighbours, Palestinian refugees languish along Syrian frontier.

Syria Looks to Better US Ties

Washington decision to name an ambassador seen as positive but some are cautious.

Women Advance in Media Against Odds

A few senior jobs have gone to women but they still face an uphill struggle to be accepted as equals.

Baath Party Debates Renewal

Ruling party confronts gap between socialist theory and need to modernise.

Iraq: May '09

Senior Basra official says IWPR stories on social, economic and cultural issues in region will concentrate minds of authorities.

'Illegal' Travel Bans Imposed on Syrian Dissidents

Authorities are introducing restrictions as form of pressure, say activists.

Militias Decry Kivu Amnesty Law

Militias say power sharing and government protection also needed to secure peace.

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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