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A student attends a hospital training. (Photo: Maha al-Ahmad)

Nursing Colleges Flourish in Opposition-Held Areas

Free medical training is being provided in a range of disciplines.

A lecture at the medical institute in Kfar Nabel. (Photo: Hadia Mansour)

A New Generation of Medics

Bringing health services to those who desperately need them.

The Rahma residential project. (Photo: Ahmad al-Salim)

Housing Syria's Displaced and Vulnerable

Newly-built villages in Idlib provide a fresh start.

A Day of Terror and Loss

When the regime attacks, tragedy is never far away.

Documenting Death in Aleppo

A team of medical examiners have the grim task of recording the city's fatalities.

Trucks carrying Barada aid for distribution. (Photo: Razan al-Sayid)

Restoring Hope in Syria

The Barada organisation is helping improve the lives of displaced and poverty-stricken families.

Members of an FSLA documentation centre at work. (Photo: Sonia al-Ali)

Safeguarding the Rights of Syrian Citizens

Offices set up in opposition-held areas process civil, legal and family issues.

Delivering Hot Meals to Syria’s Homeless

A mobile kitchen helps people who have been displaced.

A woman carrying a child walks past Aleppo’s fire station. (Photo: Hussam Kuwaifatiyeh)

The News of Death Never Stops

It's hard to look away when the violence seems endless.

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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