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Ammar Al Shahbander with Tony Borden in a picture from 2012. (Photo: IWPR)

Iraq's Pure Soul

IWPR's executive director describes the respect and affection people had for Ammar Al Shahbander.

Desperation drives women to stand outside mosques asking for help. Bustan al-Qasr, Aleppo. (Photo: Salah al-Ashqar)

Syria: A Grieving Mother Refuses to Give Up Hope

Facing the trauma of death and disappearance in Idlib.

Placard mourning Ammar Al Shahbander in Baghdad. Photo: Hatem Tome)

Iraqis Mourn Ammar Al Shahbander

After an emotional farewell, colleagues reflect on his contribution in life.

Syria: "Mama, Why Are They Shelling Us?"

Trapped under fire, a mother has no answer to a child’s question.

Women Told to Hide "Shining Eyes" in Raqqa

A trip to the shops turns into an ordeal in an Islamic State stronghold.

Syria: Defying Tradition to Join the Revolution

Conservative values make it harder for women to take part.

After Syrian Army's Defeat, People Trickle Back to Idlib Towns

Displaced people find their homes battered by three years of fighting.

Last Saturday night, in Baghdad, my friend Ammar al-Shahbander went to hear a concert sponsored by a local civic group. It was the kind of request - a fun way to support life going on in Iraq - that he didn’t tend to refuse. (Photo: Ammar Al Shahbander)

A Free Life in Iraq

Ammar al-Shahbander gave his life to two causes that are never for the faint of heart – Iraq’s future, and the freedom to think and write.

Ammar Al Shahbander, 1973-2015.

In Memoriam

IWPR Iraq Director Killed in Baghdad

Car bomb claims the life of dearest colleague, husband and father of four.

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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