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Comment: How Saddam Betrayed Us

All the sacrifices Iraqis made in the hope that things would get better were for nothing, says former navy officer.

Disabled Wardens Get Green Light

Handicapped volunteers have started to help out Baghdad’s traffic police with growing jams.

Insurgent Threats Stop Sunni Schooling

Schools in the Sunni triangle close following a series of death threats against pupils and teachers.

Foreign Students Flock to Iraqi Kurdish Colleges

Kurdish students from Iran and Syria are escaping the troubles by studying in northern Iraq.

From Kirkuk Cab Driver to Police Chief

IWPR tails Kirkuk’s police chief to find out what it takes to keep the peace on the city’s tough streets.

Pre-Election Hitches in Sulaimaniyah

In the Kurdish areas where people are the most receptive to democracy, they still find it hard to register to vote.

Main Kurdish Parties Team Up

Does the new collaborative spirit between the two big Kurdish parties come too late to maximise their gains from the election?

Conspiracy Theories Still Hold Post-Saddam

Thirty years of state manipulation are proving hard for some Iraqis to throw off.

Suspect Held Over Halabja

Sixteen years after the Kurdish town was hit by a poison gas attack, a man alleged to have supplied the chemicals could be brought to justice.

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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