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Existential Fears in Afghanistan

Local experts say unchecked pressure from neighbours could fracture the state.

Tunisian Conference Probes Police Reforms

Some say too little has changed since reforms were launched after 2011 revolution.

Tunisia: Conference on Police Reform

IWPR involved in organising meeting on how policing can change for the better.

Karabakh Offers New Home to Syrian Armenians

Resettlement scheme angers Azerbaijan, which sees it as an obstruction to an eventual peace deal.

Tough "Cybercrimes Bill" on Hold in Iraq

Critics say law combines sweeping descriptions of “information crimes” with excessive penalties.

Elyes Baccar, executive director of the Human Screen Festival (left), with Marwan Maalouf, IWPR's Tunisia country director. (Photo: IWPR)

IWPR Screens Film as Part of Tunisian Festival

Lebanese film on truth, justice and the past reverberates with issues now facing Tunisians.

Hands-On Support for Libya Election Reporting

IWPR trainers engage directly with editors and reporters.

Iraq Amnesty Could Set Killers Loose

Draft law intended to promote return to normality, but critics warn of opposite effect if militants believe they have impunity.

Georgia At The Crossroads

Politics has, it seems, never been so popular in Georgia. But the voters are being offered two very different views on the country's future by parties contesting the coming parliamentary elections.

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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