| AID POLICY: Supporting humanitarian innovations |
 | LONDON، 21/5/2012 (IRIN) - A sturdy wheelchair specially designed for emergency situations; a network of local radio stations providing real-time mapping of developing crises; a compendium of ideas for getting better accountability in remotely managed programmes - they are all original ideas and all have been funded from a special pot of money created to foster new thinking in humanitarian practice. full report |
| ISRAEL: Court conviction a victory against sex slavery, but more needed |
 | TEL AVIV، 21/5/2012 (IRIN) - The arrest and imprisonment earlier this month of the head of Israel's biggest trafficking ring of young women will deter some of those involved in sex slavery, but former victims and activists say much more needs to be done to stop the practice. full report |
| YEMEN: Struggling to get by |
 | SANA'A، 22/5/2012 (IRIN) - A devastating suicide bomb in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, may have grabbed international media headlines and highlighted known security problems, but ordinary people are quietly fighting more mundane battles to make ends meet. full report |
| IRAQ: Mine-free 2018 target will be missed |
 | BAGHDAD، 22/5/2012 (IRIN) - Iraq is drawing detailed maps of areas contaminated by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), but is unlikely to clear these areas by a 2018 deadline, says a government official. full report |
| HEALTH: Healthcare in the crossfire |
 | BANGKOK، 23/5/2012 (IRIN) - As Mohammed Mohammedi lay trapped in the car with his co-worker, pinned down by heavy gunfire, they promised each other that whoever made it out alive would tell the other’s family. Now, 12 years after he was captured and beaten by militias in Somalia while carrying out a polio vaccination campaign, he realizes this was a “futile promise”. full report |
| HEALTH: Cost of clinical trials worries donors |
 | LONDON، 24/5/2012 (IRIN) - The more medical successes there are, the more it costs to find the next one, prompting donors to demand more from researchers carrying out large-scale trials of drugs, vaccines and global health impacts. full report |
| Analysis: Libyan minority rights at a crossroads |
 | SEBHA/OUBARI/MURZUQ، 24/5/2012 (IRIN) - Since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall seven months ago, Libya’s non-Arab minorities, including an estimated 250,000 Tuaregs, have begun more vehemently to insist on their rights. full report |