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Supporting Community Life in Syria

Programme helps local initiatives rebuild lives in liberated areas.

When There is No Place to Hide

Displacement from Hama leads to disaster.

Simple housing units are built to allow the displaced to come home. (Photo: Darin Hassan)

Rebuilding Houses and Lives in Wadi al-Dayf

A new project aims to allow displaced families to return.

Flogged by the Islamic State

An elderly man is beaten for missing prayers.

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan (left) with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after signing the Eurasian Economic Treaty on October 10, 2014. (Photo: Armenian president's website)

Armenia Eyes Benefits from Russian-Turkish Crisis

Experts say that Armenians can gain politically and economically from increasingly fraught relationship.

Two women walk past a school in ruins in Aleppo’s Al-Ansari neighbourhood. (Photo: Hussam Kuwaifatiyeh)

Syria: Fleeing From One Place to the Next

"Many have already left Syria, and very soon I will be joining them."

(Photo: Damascus Bureau)

In Syria, a Life for a Bag of Sweets

Caught in an air raid on Douma.

Dust, Blood and Death in a Syrian Playground

"One second the children were laughing and playing, the next they were lifeless corpses."

Syria: No Space for Anger in Our Lives

"I had been taught a cruel lesson that there was no longer space for anger in our lives."

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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