EU needs to offer work visas to bring migration under control

28 June 2017

Could a European “coalition of the willing” offering migrants legal channels be closer than it seems?

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Saddam-era basement bunkers: A ‘double-edged sword’ for Mosul civilians
28 June 2017
As the battle for Mosul draws to a bloody conclusion, basements can be both saviours and killers
Analysis

Two cheers for UN transparency
28 June 2017
The UN opens up a lot of its spending data to public scrutiny, way more than most aid agencies. But there’s a catch.

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Taking the fight against Boko Haram to the airwaves
27 June 2017
Isolation helps propagate radicalisation, so providing information and giving an empowering voice to civilians helps reduce it. That’s the idea behind a radio station broadcasting...
Feature

How the Lebanese school system is segregating refugees
27 June 2017
So-called ”second shift” education is supposed to give Syrian refugees in Lebanon a better start, but is it sowing division?
Analysis

Kenya reconciliation faces major election test
26 June 2017
As Kenya heads to elections in August, the threat of political violence looms large

Farming becomes the new frontline in Boko Haram war
26 June 2017 Analysis
Afghan polls, Niger militancy, and vanishing Venezuelans: The Cheat Sheet
23 June 2017 News

Feature

Saddam-era basement bunkers: A ‘double-edged sword’ for Mosul civilians
28 June 2017
As the battle for Mosul draws to a bloody conclusion, basements can be both saviours and killers
Analysis

Two cheers for UN transparency
28 June 2017
The UN opens up a lot of its spending data to public scrutiny, way more than most aid agencies. But there’s a catch.
Feature

How the Lebanese school system is segregating refugees
27 June 2017
So-called ”second shift” education is supposed to give Syrian refugees in Lebanon a better start, but is it sowing division?
Feature

Taking the fight against Boko Haram to the airwaves
27 June 2017
Isolation helps propagate radicalisation, so providing information and giving an empowering voice to civilians helps reduce it. That’s the idea behind a radio station broadcasting...
Opinion

EU needs to offer work visas to migrants
28 June 2017
Could a European “coalition of the willing” offering migrants legal channels be closer than it seems?
Analysis

Farming becomes the new frontline in Boko Haram war
26 June 2017
Nigeria wants farmers terrorised by Boko Haram to return to their fields. But is it too soon?
Analysis

Kenya reconciliation faces major election test
26 June 2017
As Kenya heads to elections in August, the threat of political violence looms large
Feature

"Pistol plan" shows why peace celebrations in Colombia premature
28 June 2017
Rather than ending years of conflict, the peace deal with the FARC may have opened up yet another chapter of violence

"(Western) humanitarianism has reached its historical limits and is now on the cusp of retreat"

The crisis of multilateralism and the future of humanitarian action

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Climate change and food security

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FACT FILE: Climate change, food security, and adaptation
14 June 2017 Analysis

The little shrub making a big difference in rural Senegal
5 June 2017 Feature

Fact file: Climate change adaptation finance
22 May 2017 News

Solutions and Innovations

Analysis

The "New Way of Working": Bridging aid's funding divide
9 June 2017
Can humanitarian and development plans merge?
Special Report

Surveillance for good? Facebook tracks disaster victims
8 June 2017
Good or bad, Facebook’s “disaster maps” represent a new level of engagement between Silicon Valley and the humanitarian sector
Feature

The little shrub making a big difference in rural Senegal
5 June 2017
A medicinal herb is helping to cure the financial ills of Senegalese farmers suffering the effects of climate change

Aid and Policy

Opinion

Disposable Africans – migration and its consequences
21 June 2017
A terrible price is being paid by young Africans trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe
Opinion

Hear the voices of Congo’s girl child soldiers
19 June 2017
Only by listening and learning can we hope to reintegrate girls who become child soldiers and prevent others from joining
News

This week's humanitarian outlook
16 June 2017
Check out the humanitarian topics on IRIN’s radar and trawl through our curation of the best reports, opinion, and journalism you may have missed:

Migration

Feature

Seven must-read stories this World Refugee Day
20 June 2017
This World Refugee Day, read up and reflect on the many different predicaments facing those fleeing war around the globe, none of them good
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Welcome to refugee purgatory on the Hungary border
20 June 2017
Migrants who attempt to sneak across Hungary's heavily guarded border risk brutal beatings by Hungarian police
Feature

So, your country isn't keen to resettle refugees. Are you?
19 June 2017
Canada has provided a model of private refugee sponsorship for others to follow, but will they?

Environment and Disasters

News

IRIN receives Asia reporting awards
15 June 2017
The Society of Publishers in Asia gives IRIN top award for video reporting, honourable mention for human rights work
Analysis

FACT FILE: Climate change, food security, and adaptation
14 June 2017
A helpful guide for understanding the relationship between climate change and food security, and ideas for what can be done about it
Analysis

Trump’s climate pullout could spell disaster for developing nations
5 June 2017
American businesses and developing nations alike are going to be worse off due to the US withdrawal from the Paris Accord

Conflict

Analysis

Aleppo militias become major test for Assad
22 June 2017
Who is Ahmed Jawish and why is his murder so important for the future of Syria?
Opinion

Disturbing civilian death trends in Iraq-Syria air war: A researcher’s view
20 June 2017
Civilian-death monitor Airwars argues that the US-led coalition needs to take more care to protect civilians as strikes spike in Iraq and Syria
News

EXCLUSIVE: Largest ever stock of cholera vaccine headed for Yemen
20 June 2017
Yemen will soon have a million doses of oral cholera vaccine. Enough to stem the spiralling death toll?

Food

Analysis

Burundi crisis continues to bite
22 June 2017
The Burundian government would have you believe the country is no longer in crisis and calm reigns. If only that were the case
News

Hundreds face starvation in besieged Philippine city
19 June 2017
Civilians who fled the Philippine city of Marawi report seeing hundreds of bodies in the streets after weeks of fighting between government and Islamist forces
Analysis

UN flight ban reduces Yemen access at critical time
2 June 2017
It just got even harder to get reliable information on the humanitarian crises gripping Yemen

Health

Feature

Cholera can kill quickly. In Yemen, it’s taking one life an hour
12 June 2017
Could a vaccination campaign help rein in Yemen’s out-of-control cholera epidemic?
News

This week's humanitarian outlook
9 June 2017
Check out the humanitarian topics on IRIN’s radar and trawl through our curation of the best reports, opinion, and journalism you may have missed
News

This week's humanitarian outlook
2 June 2017
Get up to speed with our weekly humanitarian round-up

Human Rights

Opinion

Child “marriage” is child labour
12 June 2017
The ILO leaves millions of underage, illegal ‘wives’ out of its child labour statistics. Its position is indefensible, argues AIDS-free World
Special Report

What can save Mali?
29 May 2017
Jihadist violence has spread from northern Mali to the centre. More foreign soldiers may not be the answer
News

The Cheat Sheet
26 May 2017
Every week, IRIN’s team of editors looks ahead at what’s on our humanitarian radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and journalism...

Politics and Economics

Analysis

The deadly conflict tearing Nigeria apart (and it’s not Boko Haram)
13 June 2017
A bitter conflict between Fulani pastoralists and farmers is now claiming more lives than Boko Haram
Analysis

The complex battle for control in eastern Syria
30 May 2017
With western Syria becalmed, the battle for control of eastern Syria has begun in earnest
Opinion

Boko Haram: Down but far from out
24 May 2017
Amid the optimism that the Nigerian government is winning the war against Boko Haram, it's important to acknowledge lingering causes for concern

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