| Briefing: Local government law sparks unrest, violence in Sindh Province |
 | KARACHI، 4/12/2012 (IRIN) - A new local government law is causing tension, protests and fresh violence in Pakistan’s mega-city of Karachi and elsewhere in Sindh Province. full report |
| Analysis: When lack of early warning becomes manslaughter |
 | BANGKOK، 4/12/2012 (IRIN) - The recent conviction in Italy of seismologists on manslaughter charges, based on their failure to warn residents about a 2009 earthquake, could have serious repercussions for earthquake preparedness, experts say. full report |
| Analysis: Tackling Pakistan’s population time bomb |
 | ISLAMABAD، 5/12/2012 (IRIN) - A high birth rate is not making life any easier for Pakistan’s 180 million people, already affected by political instability, economic stagnation and natural disasters. full report |
| SRI LANKA: Learning from Nepal’s search for the missing |
 | JALTHAL/KILINOCHICHI، 5/12/2012 (IRIN) - Nepal and Sri Lanka share few similarities in their post-conflict experiences. The former has a peace deal, a government ministry overseeing post-war reconstruction, a national programme to trace missing persons and an NGO to advocate for their families - none of which exist in Sri Lanka. But the two do have something essential in common: grieving relatives of the missing who are now searching for answers. full report |
| PAKISTAN: Rashid Minhas – Driver, Pakistan |
 | PUNJAB، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Rashid Minhas, a 35-year-old father of four living in a remote village in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, sees prices rising while his income is static. He worries about educating his four daughters, and believes times will get harder. full report |
| PAKISTAN: Aslam Rehmat – Dental assistant, Pakistan |
 | LAHORE، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - For most of his adult life, Aslam Rehmat, 53, a dental assistant in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, has struggled to educate his children and put food on the table. Despite his efforts, life is getting harder as inflation hits. Higher education costs are a fresh burden on the family. full report |
| NEPAL: Kumari Magar – Maid, Nepal |
 | KATHMANDU، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Kumari Magar, 30, earns US$90 a month cleaning houses in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu - barely enough to live on. She stays with her brother and sister, having moved from Dolalghat village, 100km northeast of Kathmandu, six years ago to escape the hard life of a subsistence farmer. full report |
| BANGLADESH: Samir Uddin – Street hawker, Bangladesh |
 | MYMENSING، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Samir Uddin, a 50-year-old street hawker, lives with his wife and two children in the village of Charpara in Mymensing District, a rural area 120km north of the capital Dhaka. His children do not go to school. full report |
| BANGLADESH: Wliar Rahman – School teacher, Bangladesh |
 | DHAKA، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Wliar Rahman, a 47-year-old primary school teacher in Mirpur sub-district in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, lives with his wife and two children, and is constantly having to borrow money to get by. full report |
| NEPAL: Manbahadur Tamang – Farmer, Nepal |
 | KOLPATA، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Manbahadur Tamang’s family of six are subsistence farmers in Kolpata village, Sindupalchok District, 150km southeast of the Nepali capital Kathmandu. They lost this year’s entire maize crop to heavy monsoon rains in June, and now, for the first time ever, family members have been forced to look for work as day labourers. Two teenage sons have had to drop out of school. full report |
| Analysis: Assessing Southeast Asia’s aid coordination during crises |
 | JAKARTA، 6/12/2012 (IRIN) - Governments and aid groups in Southeast Asia, the most natural-disaster prone region in the world, say more coordination is needed to prepare for and respond to emergencies. full report |
| Analysis: Disasters waiting to happen |
 | LONDON، 7/12/2012 (IRIN) - In legalese, natural disasters are termed “acts of God,” the implication being that they are beyond human control or predictability. full report |
| DISASTERS: Slow-onset disasters take toll |
 | DHAKA/BANGKOK، 7/12/2012 (IRIN) - In southwestern Bangladesh, recent large-scale water-logging - stagnant flood water that fails to recede - threatens agriculture and public health for years to come. It is a crisis in the making, highlighting the risks slow-onset natural disasters pose to poor countries, and how ill-prepared officials are to respond - even with ample early warning. full report |