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Ajaria: Concern Over Missing Funds

Public discontent with Tbilisi’s new regime in Ajaria mounts, not helped by officials’ refusal to talk about where revenues have gone.

Azerbaijan, Turkey end Debt Quarrel

Economic cooperation between the two allies is hurt by a very public dispute.

Iraq Despatch Splits Armenia

Parliament begins to ponder president’s plan to send Armenians to Iraq.

Basayev and Maskhadov Under Pressure

Chechen warrior Shamil Basayev is a prime suspect in the Beslan attack. Rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has condemned it, but is facing fury from the Russians.

Russia, Armenia Cultivate Alliance

Joint military exercises are "a continuation of politics by other means".

Armenia Debates Ethnic Rights

Cool reception from Armenia’s tiny minority communities to a draft law designed to help them.

Armenia: Border Villages Get New Lease of Life

Resettlement programme aimed at bolstering depressed border regions is gaining momentum.

Kabardino-Balkaria: Circassian Clears Last Repatriation Hurdle

Deported ethnic Circassian wins the right to return to his ancestral homeland.

Armenian-Georgian Market Losing its Role

The decline of what was once the biggest wholesale market in the South Caucasus marks a change in the way Armenia and Georgia trade with one another.

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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