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Society Women Worldwide

Passport Control: Yemeni Women Still Need Male Guardian’s Approval To Leave The Country

Photo of female students at a school in Sanaa, Yemen
Students at a school in Sanaa, Yemen Hani Ali/Xinhua/ZUMA

With their country in an intractable civil war, thousands of Yemeni women have been unable to obtain passports and other official documents without the permission of a male guardian or relative — as warring authorities have been systematically violating Yemeni law and women’s right to freedom of movement.

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Migrant Lives

Dying To Get To America: Why So Many Missing Migrants Go Unidentified

A group of migrants look for an opening in the concertina wire barrier south of Eagle Pass where a 1000-foot string of buoys has been placed in the river to deter crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas.
A group of migrants look for an opening in the concertina wire barrier south of Eagle Pass where a 1000-foot string of buoys has been placed in the river to deter crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas. Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA

Since the 1990s, thousands of migrants have tried to enter the U.S. by crossing the borders of Arizona and Texas, and many have died in the desert. Yet there is no unified DNA program to identify the remains of missing migrants. So who identifies them and how do they do it?

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