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Brides-to-be Risk Their Health

Women who’ve lost their virginity pay for dangerous medical procedure so their families won’t be shamed.

Plenty of Oil But No Petrol

Insurgents blowing up pipelines add to technical hitches that prevent Iraq refining its oil and keep petrol queues long.

Normality Returns to Mosul

Residents breathe sigh of relief as security forces regain control of city rocked by insurgent violence.

Allawi Still Enjoys Backing of Security Forces

Outgoing prime minister is seen as a secular strongman who is well placed to tackle security problems.

Rights Group Helps Dwarfs Walk Tall

Dwarfs overcome discrimination and ridicule with support from pragmatic association.

Survey Highlights Iraqi Misery

Officials say there’s an urgent need to improve job prospects, in order to stave off instability.

Influx of Foreigners Sparks AIDS Alert

Fears that HIV may be spreading prompts the authorities to investigate scale of infection.

Killing for Honour

Officials and activists voice concern at the number of women being murdered by their own families.

Allawi Looks to Lead the Opposition

Ex-premier sets up a shadow government to hold the new cabinet to account.

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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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