| GREECE-SYRIA: Emmad Saeed, “I know I’m not going to die, and that is a relief” |
 | SKALOCHORI، 5/10/2012 (IRIN) - In the sleepy village of Skalochori on the Greek island of Lesbos, a group of 23 Syrian refugees are eating a hurried meal of donated fish and bread before a police van arrives to detain them. full report |
| MIGRATION: Influx shifts to Greek islands |
 | MYTILENE، 5/10/2012 (IRIN) - Just as Greece appears to have successfully stemmed the flow of undocumented migrants crossing the land border with Turkey, a new influx of migrants and asylum seekers has started arriving on its eastern Aegean islands. full report |
| LEBANON-OPT: Hidden health crisis facing Palestinian refugees |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 9/10/2012 (IRIN) - New research has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. full report |
| CLIMATE CHANGE: Tackling the information void |
 | BANGKOK، 9/10/2012 (IRIN) - Services to inform communities about the climate are available in higher-income countries, but are not reaching the people most in need of them in developing countries due to lack of government investment and a disconnect between experts and communities facing extreme weather. full report |
| CLIMATE CHANGE: Human Rights Watch’s Jan Egeland calls for faster progress |
 | BANGKOK، 9/10/2012 (IRIN) - On the sidelines of a recent presentation he made in Bangkok on disaster prevention and preparedness, IRIN spoke to Jan Egeland, deputy director of Human Rights Watch, about progress on the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). full report |
| FOOD: How good is the new hunger data? |
 | ADDIS ABABA، 11/10/2012 (IRIN) - After years of criticism, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced it is exploring new ways to measure “hunger”, “undernourishment” and “food insecurity” - terms used interchangeably - which will dramatically alter the number of people believed to be going hungry. full report |