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Karbala Mirrors Countrywide Crisis

Dire shortage of drugs and doctors reflects catastrophic effect of war and corruption on the country’s healthcare system.

Iraq: July/Aug ‘07

Training session on reporting local governance prepares the ground for investigative reports.

Refugees Still Waiting at Mokhtar Camp

Little help available for the thousands of people in a refugee camp outside Lashkar Gah.

First Hashish, Then Opium, Now Everything

Helmand’s only drug clinic cannot cope with the rising number of addicts.

Everything For My Bike

Young men in Helmand spend all their cash on motorcycles and accessories.

A Helmand Heroine

Fawzia Olumi runs many risks to promote women’s affairs in the province.

Militias Jeopardise New Basra Hospital

Campaign of intimidation and violence leaves ambitious project way behind schedule.

Cholera Outbreak in North Blamed on Dirty Water

Local officials say water supply systems are in urgent need of an overhaul.

Sunni Patients Fear Baghdad Wards

Sunnis stay clear of hospitals for fear of being targeted by Shia death squads.

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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