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Sunnis Followed Their Leaders

Participation of Sunni parties in the election was key to their community’s huge turnout in the Iraqi election.

Sulaimaniyah Shake-Up Gets Cool Reception

Local government officials have been sacked in an effort to tackle graft - but locals aren’t convinced.

Women's Voices on Election Day

As Iraqi women streamed into polling centres for last week’s election, IWPR reporters sought out the views of this increasingly assertive constituency.

Wind of Change for Armenian Energy Sector

The first efforts to provide alternative energy of a country heavily reliant on nuclear power.

UK Iraqis Flock to the Polls

Iraqi election fever grips a small corner of suburban North London.

Scraping a Living

Dismal economic prospects mean low paid, menial and dangerous work is often only way to make ends meet.

Kicking the Habit

Using opium or hashish is considered perfectly acceptable by increasing numbers of people.

Kurds Concerned About Fraud

Voters sceptical despite an increase in monitors and promises from Kurdish leaders of clean elections.

Men Stifling Women Voters

Activists fear a combination of violence and chauvinism will keep Iraqi women from the polls.

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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