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Climate of Fear Stymies Basra Reporters

Journalists risk death if they try to report candidly about the troubled city.

Militants Pick Off Mosul Snappers

Photographers and cameramen are high on extremists’ target list.

Introduction

Iraqi journalists struggle to get their stories out in the face of intimidation, abductions and targeted killings.

Circassians Voice Olympian Anger

North Caucasian activists say the Sochi Olympics will write them out of history.

Karbala Radio Station Challenges Traditions

Station's tackling of controversial social issues and liking for western music raises clerics' eyebrows

Biased Kirkuk Media Inflame Tension

City’s rival groups use their respective media as propaganda weapons.

Baghdad's TV Escapists

Residents watch hours of cartoons, films and music shows to get a break from the chaos outside their homes.

Proposed Press Law Too Limited

Legislation de-criminalises libel but imposes a range of reporting restrictions.

Iraq: July/Aug ‘07

Special reports on security and education republished widely in Iraqi and international media.

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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