Help the people, save the trees
JOHANNESBURG, 3 December 2013 (IRIN) - Several issues around the UN mechanism that aims to curtail greenhouse gases by preventing forest loss were resolved in Warsaw at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the meeting is being described by many as the "Forest COP". Read report online |
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Analysis: Help wanted - local aid workers need psychosocial assistance too
MANILA/BANGKOK, 3 December 2013 (IRIN) - Back-to-back emergencies during the last three months in the Philippines have exposed the need for more psychosocial support (clinical and social assistance to ease mental suffering) for local aid workers who are often the first responders - even when they have also been seriously affected - but are among the last to get help. Read report online |
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Will private finance be available for climate adaptation?
JOHANNESBURG, 4 December 2013 (IRIN) - A commitment to consistent and predictable sources of climate financing was one of the issues that kept negotiators working overtime at the recent UN climate talks in Warsaw, with poor countries insisting that money made available to help them adapt to a changing climate has to come from public sources. Read report online |
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The hidden crisis in urban slums
NAIROBI, 4 December 2013 (IRIN) - In Mathare, a sprawling slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, children in tattered clothes play with raw waste flowing from a burst sewage pipe. In the alley, crowded with tin-and-wood shanties, a food kiosk filled with people feasting on smoked fish stands on the burst pipe. Close by, a woman fries chopped potatoes on an open fire. Read report online |
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HEBDO: IRIN Service français - Bulletin hebdomadaire humanitaire 700 06 decembre 2013
DUBAÏ, 6 December 2013 (IRIN) - IRIN Service français - Bulletin hebdomadaire humanitaire 700 06 decembre 2013 Read report online |
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Aid agencies struggle to reach all of CAR's needy
BANGUI/BOSSANGOA, 6 December 2013 (IRIN) - Chaos following a coup in the Central African Republic (CAR) has left half the population of 4.6 million in need of assstance, some 400,000 people displaced and countless living in fear of increasingly brutal and sectarian violence. Read report online |
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CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 712 06 December 2013
NAIROBI, 6 December 2013 (IRIN) - IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 712 6 December 2013 Read report online |
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HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 712 06 December 2013
NAIROBI, 6 December 2013 (IRIN) - IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 712 6 December 2013 Read report online |
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Outrage, scepticism at Uganda U-turn on LGBTI clinics
KAMPALA, 9 December 2013 (IRIN) - Eighteen months after slamming activists who opened a clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Kampala, Uganda's health ministry has decided it was a good idea after all and has begun setting up similar facilities, prompting outrage from the Ministry for Ethics and Integrity and scepticism from some in civil society. Read report online |
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Shrinking the financial fallout of natural disasters
TOKYO, 9 December 2013 (IRIN) - Relief will be more easily and quickly available, and the economic fallout much more manageable, if governments project and plan fiscally for potential natural disasters and their human and economic toll well in advance, experts say. Read report online |
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Look at growth and governance, not poverty, says report
LONDON, 11 December 2013 (IRIN) - Daniel Runde, of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has just lobbed a firecracker into the debate over the future of aid and development. Now is the time, he says, for donor countries to shift their focus away from alleviating poverty. It is time, instead, he says, to concentrate on helping developing countries reach a position from which they can end poverty and deliver social goods for themselves. Read report online |
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Do we care enough about sexual violence?
JOHANNESBURG, 11 December 2013 (IRIN) - Nomsa*, 20, was on her way to register at a university outside Pretoria, South Africa, with four friends when the men grabbed her. "I was fighting with them," she said. They dragged her into a building, where the five of them took turns to rape her. The friends ran away and did not come back to look for her. The men took Nomsa's mobile phone. Read report online |
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Briefing: Escalating clashes in northern Kenya
MOYALE, 11 December 2013 (IRIN) - A fresh outbreak of violence between communities in northern Kenya's Moyale area - in Marsabit County - has displaced tens of thousands and led the government to take the almost unprecedented step of deploying its troops domestically in an effort to quell the unrest. Read report online |
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Analysis: Stopping disease swaps between humans and animals
HONG KONG, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - With more than half of all human infections originating in animals, experts say a multi-sectoral, global response to zoonoses - diseases passing between animals and humans - is urgently needed. IRIN talked to a panel of experts to learn just how deadly humans and animals can be to one another, and ultimately how each can save the other. Read report online |
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MULTIMEDIA: Central African Republic - A failed state implodes
BANGUI, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - This In Depth features video testimony from those caught up in the violence in the northern town of Bossangoa, where tens of thousands of people are holed up in the grounds of a Catholic mission and other locations. Read report online |
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After North Kivu, UN, DRC forces set sights on Orientale
BUNIA, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) - After the defeat of M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province, government and UN forces have shifted their focus to the northeastern Orientale Province, giving armed groups there a two-week ultimatum to surrender their weapons and return to civilian life. Read report online |
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