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Sunnis Complain of Random Arrests, Torture

Discovery of tortured detainees at secret Baghdad jail ratchets up tensions between Sunni Arab leaders and Shia-led government.

Capital Hit by Water Crisis

Enterprising traders come up with solution for chronic shortages of drinking water.

Baghdad Blast Eyewitness

IWPR reporter describes the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in the capital.

Child Workers Help Their Families Get By

Fatherless families send children as young as eight out to work on the streets.

Car Bombs Rock Sulaimaniyah

Violence shocks a quiet Kurdish city unaccustomed to the violence seen elsewhere in Iraq.

A Dangerous Trade

Once protected by Saddam's regime, prostitutes now fear for their lives.

Turkmen Leader Wins on Gas Deal

President Niazov seems to be on a roll, extracting the best possible deal on the gas he sells Ukraine. But how long will his winning streak last?

Female Lawyers Fight for Equality

Women attorneys maintain that discrimination in the courts runs rampant.

Female Civil Servants Cry Foul Over Taxes

Rates benefiting married government workers are discriminatory, say unmarried women.

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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