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Syrian female footballers. (Photo: Damascus Bureau)

Women Kick Up A Storm in Syrian Football

Female players aim to win matches and challenge attitudes.

A couple wait for public transport in Aleppo. (Photo: Hussam Kuwaifatiyeh)

Tales of the Revolution’s Heartbreak

The regime's paramilitaries have destroyed so many lives.

The Sound of War

Listening out for danger, both night and day.

Voting for Assad

Going through the charade of presidential elections.

The Truce that Never Was

This wasn’t the first time the ceasefire had been breached, but it was the bloodiest.

At the Mercy of A Sniper

One woman's close brush with death.

Employees of the Syria Relief and Development NGO distribute solar-powered appliances. (Photo: Shelter)

Keeping Syria’s Displaced Warm

Project aims to provide aid to as many people as possible during the colder weather.

A displaced family from Kobani settle in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood. (Photo: Baraa al-Halabi)

Displaced, Again and Again

A family suffers the indignity of repeated displacement.

Kfar Nabel’s local council installs electricity generator in one of the town’s neighbourhoods. (Photo: Mostafa al-Jalal)

Sparking Up Kfar Nabel's Power Supply

Local initiative aims to boost electricity supply in rural areas.

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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