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Sunnis Fight Off Insurgents

Sunnis targeted by al-Qaeda groups in western Iraq have formed their own militia.

Students Abuse University Admissions Scheme

Well-connected students exploit programme designed to get former peshmerga into higher education.

Blasphemy Row Inflames Azerbaijan

Islamists say journalist who allegedly impugned Islam deserves to die.

Toiling Away

Women are expected to look after the house and go out to work - and at the same time comply with social traditions that restrict their freedom.

Armenia Ruminates Over Membership

Yerevan seeks to build better relations with Brussels, while not offending Moscow.

Afghan Drug Boom Fuels Child Addiction Rates

Doctors estimate that there are more than 2,000 drug-addicted children in the western city of Herat alone.

Leaving Turkmenistan Gets Even Harder

Getting out of Turkmenistan is becoming more difficult as the security agencies widen their net and bar more people from leaving the country.

Young Kurds Escape Economic Gloom

Fed up with corruption and poverty, they yearn for a new life in Western Europe.

Best Minds Join Iraqi Exodus

Brain drain concerns as number of Iraqis emigrating to escape violence multiplies.

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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