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Azerbaijan: Gas Pipeline Under Fire

Russia and Iran are questioning the need for the new Baku-Erzerum gas link.

Chechnya: Blasts Signal New Campaign

Two suicide attacks in three days indicate a shift in tactics by Chechen guerrillas.

Azerbaijani Prostitutes Flock to Turkey

An influx of Azerbaijani prostitutes, some the victims of crime, some the perpetrators, is shaking up eastern Turkey.

Aliev Illness Galvanises Opposition

As President Heidar Aliev looks set to mark his 80th birthday in a Turkish hospital, the Azerbaijani opposition is weighing its options.

Georgia: Bogus Agencies Prey on Jobless

High unemployment in Georgia spawns rogue job centres which rob their customers.

Circassians Turn Full Circle

Descendents of Caucasus emigres hoped to make new lives back in their ancestral lands, but many are giving up in disappointment

Aliev Collapse Shakes Azerbaijan

Dramatic proof of president's shaky health raises doubts as to whether he can really seek a third term in office this autumn.

Azerbaijan: Kurds Targeted Again

Thousands of Kurds forced to leave Nagorny Karabakh a decade ago find themselves under threat once more.

Chechnya Tribunal Proposed

Council of Europe is pressing for a special international tribunal to deal with war crimes in Chechnya.

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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