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Iraq: Apr/May ‘11

IWPR practical and financial support has helped Iraqi media organisations to overcome problems and prosper.

Iraqi Media Equipped to Move On

IWPR practical and financial support has helped Iraqi media organisations to overcome problems and prosper.

Editorial Comment

Iraqi Freedoms Threatened by Internet Restrictions

Online access remains a big problem for Iraqis, undermining their right to freedom on expression.

First Person

Bahrain Regime Tactics Squeezing Protests

Security force deployment around the country has significantly restricted the size of demonstrations – but people are determined to continue their struggle.

IWPR Insight

Will Gaddafi Face Justice?

Camp for Libyan refugees in southern Tunisia. (Photo: IWPR)

First Person

Libyan Expats Mobilise to Help Refugees

Activist visits southern Tunisia to find out how best to help those displaced by the conflict.

Top Egyptian TV Journalist Explains Why She Quit

Veteran broadcaster says official censorship of the revolution prompted her to join demonstrators in Tahrir Square.

Witnessing Dera'a's Torment

Human rights campaigner tells of secret visits to beleaguered southern Syrian city.

First Person

Tunisians Relishing New Freedoms

Artist whose song became the anthem for the uprising describes how people’s fear of expressing themselves has vanished.

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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