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Georgia Acts to Save its Treasures

Tbilisi is beginning to try to combat the steady loss of its artistic heritage.

Baku Cathedral Warms Russian Hearts

A Russian Orthodox church in Baku has opened its doors for the first time in eight decades.

Nervous Caucasus Backs Washington over Iraq

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia support United States to various degrees, but worry about war's impact on their own region.

Travails Of Dagestan's Pilgrim Traders

The annual pilgrimage to Mecca this February brought big money to some Dagestanis, and a lot of trouble to others.

Azerbaijani Football: A Feud of Two Halves

A row over leadership of the Azerbaijani football federation is virtually shutting down the whole national game

Pankisi Gorge: Chechens Fear Backlash

Chechen refugees fear they will be the losers in Georgia's campaign to clear the Pankisi Gorge of Islamic militants.

Meskhetian Return Stirs Georgian Dissent

Georgia's pledge to allow the return of Meskhetian Turks has provoked widespread public opposition.

Azerbaijan's Hidden Lepers

Forgotten by the outside world, 36 leprosy sufferers are fading away quietly in the small Azerbaijani village of Umbaki.

Abkhazia And Russia: Uneasy Friends

How deep does enthusiasm in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia for Russia run?

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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