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Educated Shia Condemn Sadrists

Radical movement’s attacks on senior clergy seen as contradicting calls for unity.

People Fear Persecutors' Return

The decision to allow Baathists back into government stirs bad memories in Kurdistan.

Prison Abuses Add to Anti-US Feeling

Angry reactions to Abu Ghraib prison reports further erode confidence in the Coalition.

Abuse Victims Wary of Political Trials

Some former Abu Ghraib inmates fear exploitation by politically-motivated lawyers.

Iraq's Outcasts

Many orphans and other poor children are forced into begging and prostitution.

Comment: Who is in Charge?

Iraqis trying to get on with their lives do not know to whom to turn for guidance and security.

Comment: Disarming Iraq

By Haytham el-Salimi in Basra (ICR No. 22, 17-June-03)

Women Excluded from Post-War Reconstruction

Women have an important role to play in building a democratic Iraq, but they have so far been conspicuous by their absence.

House Arrest Saddam-Style

Iraqis are discovering that their neighbours' ordinary homes had been converted to Ba'athist torture centres.

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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