http://www.irinnews.org/irin-fp.aspxUpdated everydayen-gbFri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:31 GMTFri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>PHNOM PENH 03 February 2012 (IRIN) - On 3 February, judges in the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts in Cambodia (ECCC) – more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge trials – sentenced Kaing Guek Eav (“Duch”), the former chairman of the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng security prison, to life in prison.Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94790PHNOM PENH 03 February 2012 (IRIN) - On 3 February, judges in the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts in Cambodia (ECCC) – more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge trials – sentenced Kaing Guek Eav (“Duch”), the former chairman of the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng security prison, to life in prison.]]>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>DUBAI 31 January 2012 (IRIN) - Among the migrants who found themselves caught up in Libya during last year's war was a group of people whom one University of Oxford researcher calls "invisible": refugees who travel to third countries for work or better education.Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94762DUBAI 31 January 2012 (IRIN) - Among the migrants who found themselves caught up in Libya during last year's war was a group of people whom one University of Oxford researcher calls "invisible": refugees who travel to third countries for work or better education.]]>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>HAJJAH 31 January 2012 (IRIN) - Ahmad Hussein Naji, 75, and his wife Taqwa, spent three days in the open after fleeing clashes in Kisher District in Yemen’s northern governorate of Hajjah before eventually finding shelter in a school in the neighbouring district of Khairan al-Muharaq.Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94763HAJJAH 31 January 2012 (IRIN) - Ahmad Hussein Naji, 75, and his wife Taqwa, spent three days in the open after fleeing clashes in Kisher District in Yemen’s northern governorate of Hajjah before eventually finding shelter in a school in the neighbouring district of Khairan al-Muharaq.]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>JAKARTA 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Human rights groups have urged Indonesian authorities to drop treason charges against five activists in the easternmost province of Papua.Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94751JAKARTA 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Human rights groups have urged Indonesian authorities to drop treason charges against five activists in the easternmost province of Papua.]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>PESHAWAR 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Jawad Khan, 15, spends most of his day at home in his village in the remote Battagram District of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province (KP), sometimes glancing at a magazine, or occasionally helping his mother shell peas or cut up potatoes.Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94752PESHAWAR 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Jawad Khan, 15, spends most of his day at home in his village in the remote Battagram District of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province (KP), sometimes glancing at a magazine, or occasionally helping his mother shell peas or cut up potatoes.]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>KABUL 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Afghanistan suffers from cyclical natural disasters - floods and drought - which affect people annually and require expensive emergency responses, but their impacts could well be avoided, or at least mitigated, if proper water management systems or dams were built, for example.Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94753KABUL 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Afghanistan suffers from cyclical natural disasters - floods and drought - which affect people annually and require expensive emergency responses, but their impacts could well be avoided, or at least mitigated, if proper water management systems or dams were built, for example.]]>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>RAMALLAH 27 January 2012 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential services like health care and education, and tackling food insecurity especially in areas where the Palestinian Authority (PA) has limited access.Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94740RAMALLAH 27 January 2012 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential services like health care and education, and tackling food insecurity especially in areas where the Palestinian Authority (PA) has limited access.]]>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>BUNDIMASOLI 26 January 2012 (IRIN) - The marginalized western Ugandan Basua community is fighting extinction; forcibly removed from their forest home two decades ago, they have struggled to cope with modern life and have been ravaged by health crises, including HIV.Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94732BUNDIMASOLI 26 January 2012 (IRIN) - The marginalized western Ugandan Basua community is fighting extinction; forcibly removed from their forest home two decades ago, they have struggled to cope with modern life and have been ravaged by health crises, including HIV.]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>JOHANNESBURG 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - In the past five years, “resilience” (the ability to absorb shocks and recover) has become quite a buzzword in the aid community. Discussions on adapting to a changing climate are increasingly peppered with the “need to build resilience” of people, infrastructure and governments in the face of shocks such as soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, severe storms and flooding.Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94714JOHANNESBURG 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - In the past five years, “resilience” (the ability to absorb shocks and recover) has become quite a buzzword in the aid community. Discussions on adapting to a changing climate are increasingly peppered with the “need to build resilience” of people, infrastructure and governments in the face of shocks such as soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, severe storms and flooding.]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>BANGKOK 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - About 150 asylum-seekers in Australia have suspended their hunger strike after accusing the government of reneging on a promise for community detention and bridging visas for long-term detainees who posed no risk, activists confirm.Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94715BANGKOK 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - About 150 asylum-seekers in Australia have suspended their hunger strike after accusing the government of reneging on a promise for community detention and bridging visas for long-term detainees who posed no risk, activists confirm.]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>ADEN 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - When Abdullah al-Hasani, 55, fled his home in the Khanfar District of Yemen’s Abyan Governorate eight months ago, he hoped some day to return and grow watermelons.Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94716ADEN 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - When Abdullah al-Hasani, 55, fled his home in the Khanfar District of Yemen’s Abyan Governorate eight months ago, he hoped some day to return and grow watermelons.]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>POINTE NOIRE 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94721POINTE NOIRE 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.]]>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>JUBA 23 January 2012 (IRIN) - Wounded civilians from both sides of an escalating conflict between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state lie side by side in the steaming heat of a hospital ward in the new country’s capital, Juba.Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94706JUBA 23 January 2012 (IRIN) - Wounded civilians from both sides of an escalating conflict between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state lie side by side in the steaming heat of a hospital ward in the new country’s capital, Juba.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>BANGKOK 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - An estimated 40,000 Rohingya children are believed to be unregistered in Myanmar, according to a new report.Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94672BANGKOK 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - An estimated 40,000 Rohingya children are believed to be unregistered in Myanmar, according to a new report.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>LONDON 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - A new study by the New York Guttmacher Institute states that the number of women having induced abortions has stayed stubbornly high since the last such report in 2003, and that the marked reduction in the eight years before that has not been maintained.Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94683LONDON 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - A new study by the New York Guttmacher Institute states that the number of women having induced abortions has stayed stubbornly high since the last such report in 2003, and that the marked reduction in the eight years before that has not been maintained.]]>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>NAIROBI 17 January 2012 (IRIN) - At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers – a move seen as “encouraging” by the UN, albeit with the proviso that the situation in both countries remains volatile.Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94657NAIROBI 17 January 2012 (IRIN) - At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers – a move seen as “encouraging” by the UN, albeit with the proviso that the situation in both countries remains volatile.]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>COX’S BAZAR 13 January 2012 (IRIN) - While the Myanmar government takes significant strides in political reform, Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh fear their condition may not change any time soon.Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94639COX’S BAZAR 13 January 2012 (IRIN) - While the Myanmar government takes significant strides in political reform, Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh fear their condition may not change any time soon.]]>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>BANGUI 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Among the most pressing security threats in the Central African Republic (CAR) is a Chadian armed group active in the north of the country, which allegedly continues to recruit and acquire weapons, despite having undertaken to return to Chad.Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94624BANGUI 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Among the most pressing security threats in the Central African Republic (CAR) is a Chadian armed group active in the north of the country, which allegedly continues to recruit and acquire weapons, despite having undertaken to return to Chad.]]>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>TEL AVIV 10 January 2012 (IRIN) - Following a heated public debate, the Israeli cabinet passed on 9 January a tough new law intended to deter the entry of what the government calls “illegal migrants” or “infiltrators”.Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94620TEL AVIV 10 January 2012 (IRIN) - Following a heated public debate, the Israeli cabinet passed on 9 January a tough new law intended to deter the entry of what the government calls “illegal migrants” or “infiltrators”.]]>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>DADAAB 09 January 2012 (IRIN) - Several community leaders among the 463,000 residents of the world’s largest refugee complex have left the facility in eastern Kenya, fearing for their safety after the killing of two of their colleagues.Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94596DADAAB 09 January 2012 (IRIN) - Several community leaders among the 463,000 residents of the world’s largest refugee complex have left the facility in eastern Kenya, fearing for their safety after the killing of two of their colleagues.]]>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>CAIRO 05 January 2012 (IRIN) - The involvement of children in violence during ongoing clashes between protesters and police in Egypt should be addressed because it is against international norms, say child rights activists.Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94587CAIRO 05 January 2012 (IRIN) - The involvement of children in violence during ongoing clashes between protesters and police in Egypt should be addressed because it is against international norms, say child rights activists.]]>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>DAKAR 04 January 2012 (IRIN) - A new report on child migration in West Africa says thousands of children are being sold, exchanged or transported out of their communities each year in violation of internationally-recognized rights of the child, and calls on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to persuade governments to better protect these children.Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94582DAKAR 04 January 2012 (IRIN) - A new report on child migration in West Africa says thousands of children are being sold, exchanged or transported out of their communities each year in violation of internationally-recognized rights of the child, and calls on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to persuade governments to better protect these children.]]>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT]]>BANGKOK 04 January 2012 (IRIN) - As the government of Myanmar continues to pledge political reform, donors are reassessing their giving in a country that has historically received among the lowest levels of per capita development aid of any developing country.Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94584BANGKOK 04 January 2012 (IRIN) - As the government of Myanmar continues to pledge political reform, donors are reassessing their giving in a country that has historically received among the lowest levels of per capita development aid of any developing country.]]>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT]]>ABIDJAN 30 December 2011 (IRIN) - Eight months after President Allassane Ouattara assumed office at the end of a prolonged civil conflict, peace remains fragile amid abuses and killings by former rebel fighters who once provided him support.Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94571ABIDJAN 30 December 2011 (IRIN) - Eight months after President Allassane Ouattara assumed office at the end of a prolonged civil conflict, peace remains fragile amid abuses and killings by former rebel fighters who once provided him support.]]>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT]]>DINAJPUR 29 December 2011 (IRIN) - Northern Bangladesh’s mostly Hindu indigenous people are still coming under land-grabbing pressure from the country’s predominantly Bengali Muslim population, say activists.Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=94558DINAJPUR 29 December 2011 (IRIN) - Northern Bangladesh’s mostly Hindu indigenous people are still coming under land-grabbing pressure from the country’s predominantly Bengali Muslim population, say activists.]]>