Illegal Migrants Risk All to Escape Tunisia

Attempting to cross to Lampedusa on flimsy vessels carries huge risks.

Sleiman al-Hayess does the rounds at his physiotherapy centre. (Photo: Ahmed Abboud)

Syria: Physiotherapy Centre in Deir el-Zor

Staff do their best with limited facilities in city under siege.

Syrians Divided on Western Intervention

As international plan was still taking shape, most but not all interviewees in rebel-held town thought limited air strikes would be effective.

Syrian City Recovers From Car Bombings

Still seen as fairly safe, Jaramana has become a refuge for people displaced by fighting elsewhere.

Mixed Marriages in Sectarian Syria

Couples describe difficulty of winning acceptance when they marry across faith divides.

Security and Justice Reforms in Syria

Looking at reforms that will be needed after the end of conflict.

Portrait of a man from Sidi Bouzid who lives off the scraps people at the city market offer him. © Aymen Hamdi

IWPR Celebrates Emerging Tunisian Photographers

Pictures show daily life in all its colours.

Syria: Divisions on Military Strikes, Russian Initiative

Syria: After Talk of Strikes Subsides, Life Returns to “Normal”

But political differences continue.

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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