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Unwanted Attentions at Syrian Checkpoint

Women face dangers from government soldiers as well as Islamic rebels.

Syria: Unlicensed Pharmaceuticals Trade in Kfar Nabel

Local authorities plan crackdown on people who lack the training and operating licenses, but still sell medicines and advise on cures.

Syria: Bitter Coffee, Strong Opinions

Politics, disputes and feuds mulled over as traditional coffeehouses continue to play central community role.

When We Turned into Black-Clad Corpses

"We were women brilliant and bright with colour."

Stopped by the Morality Police in Raqqa

Narrow escape for a woman whose “offence” is waiting in a shop while the owner is out at the mosque.

Syria: Female Detainees Swap One Prison for Another

Women released from government jails face suspicion in their own communities.

Fleeing My Homeland, Syria

Reflections on leaving a war-torn country, perhaps forever.

Syria: Living on the Edge

Women challenge Islamic militants on their arbitrary rules on “modest dress”.

Syria: Searching For My Lost Father

In Raqqa, a mother pleads with Islamic State’s potentates for news of her abducted husband.

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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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