| HEALTH: Sharing “open innovation” risks and rewards |
 | LONDON، 30/7/2012 (IRIN) - A growing trend in collaborative health research is creating potentially life-saving global partnerships between pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, disease advocates, and even the general public, who are drawn into the world of science through “crowd-sourcing”. full report |
| WATER: Prepare to face shocks |
 | LONDON، 1/8/2012 (IRIN) - Is the world ready to face water shocks? For water shocks are certainly coming; water shocks, in fact, are already here. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Marie, “It’s been a long journey and a painful one” |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 1/8/2012 (IRIN) - Marie*, her husband and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are about to relocate from South Africa, where they have lived for the past decade, to Australia where they have been accepted into that country’s refugee resettlement programme. full report |
| REFUGEES: Resettlement still a last resort |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 1/8/2012 (IRIN) - After five years of hoping and waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call telling them to pack their bags; they would be leaving South Africa for Australia at the end of the month. full report |
| CLIMATE CHANGE: Deciphering a green economy |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 2/8/2012 (IRIN) - Two consecutive power outages affecting at least 600 million people spelt out India's energy crisis as August began. Caused in part by a coal shortage and in part by poor rains, the lack of power makes a strong case for an urgent global need to consider alternative sources of electricity. full report |
| SECURITY: Arms trade treaty failure not all doom and gloom |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 3/8/2012 (IRIN) - The failure of a proposed treaty to regulate the multi-billion dollar global conventional weapons trade does not mean disaster, according to some campaigners looking to develop effective international arms controls. full report |