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LEBANON: Displaced Allawis find little relief in impoverished north
HISA, AKKAR Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - They may have been uprooted “more than 40 times” over the years since Lebanon’s Civil War began in 1975, but Hussein Mohammed and his family say they have rarely felt as threatened as they do today.
GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week.
LEBANON: Displaced families struggle on both sides of sectarian divide
TRIPOLI (NORTHERN LEBANON) Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of Shia Allawi families who have fled the upsurge in violence since 25 July between the Jebel Mohsen (mainly Allawi) and Bab al-Tabbaneh (mainly Sunni) neighbourhoods of Tripoli are living without basic necessities and have yet to receive support.
GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected.
LEBANON: “The rocket came through the window at dawn”
TRIPOLI (NORTHERN LEBANON) Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - A few hours after evacuating their bullet-riddled three bedroom flat on the street which divides Sunnis from Shia Allawis in Tripoli’s poorest neighbourhood, Khaled Mansour and his new wife were woken by the sound of their front room exploding.
GLOBAL: How climate change works
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be:
GLOBAL: Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected.
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part 2) - "the crisis of humanitarianism"
NEW YORK Friday, July 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The global humanitarian enterprise could lose touch with the needs of its beneficiaries because of political and security priorities, especially the “war on terror”, according to a new report.
GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity"
NEW YORK Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - It's the year 2018. A massive crisis is devastating the Horn of Africa, combining drought, huge migrations, urban desperation and there's little in the way of safety nets. Meanwhile, a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault has hammered California. US government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are already overstretched.
LEBANON: Women, non-Lebanese children get raw deal
BEIRUT Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship. Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the father who gains automatic custody, according to Lebanese nationality law.
LEBANON: Peace still precarious
NAQOURA Sunday, July 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Hezbollah’s claim to victory over Israel in its 16 July prisoner swap undermines moderate Arab states and leaders, and may encourage armed struggle across the region at a time of upheaval in the relations between the West and the Middle East, a number of observers have said.
GLOBAL: Proposal for new US$10 billion disaster fund wins plaudits, criticism
NEW YORK Thursday, July 10, 2008 (IRIN) - A proposal in a recent UN report for a unified global mechanism for disaster relief and risk mitigation, with a US$10 billion budget, is receiving a mixed welcome, with praise for increased spending and prevention efforts, but concern over the idea of a one-stop shop.
    
GLOBAL: A dollar more for climate change adaptation, a dollar less for health
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, July 09, 2008 (IRIN) - The decision by the Group of Eight (G8) countries to divert money from their Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) funds to help poor countries adapt to climate change has been slammed. The eight industrialised countries have also come under fire for failing to fix short- and medium-term targets to cut dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say are warming up the planet.
GLOBAL: Why everything costs more
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 08, 2008 (IRIN) - A rough guide to why food prices keep going up
GLOBAL: AIDS spending breaks records, but needs more focus
NAIROBI Tuesday, July 08, 2008 (IRIN) - HIV/AIDS funding to low- and middle-income countries reached a record level in 2007, according to a new report by UNAIDS.
GLOBAL: Balm to help ease way to climate change deal before G8?
JOHANNESBURG Friday, July 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Experts under the leadership of former UK prime minister Tony Blair have prepared a report described as a "useful balm applied at the right moment to tense muscles" in an attempt to crack a global deal on climate change in international talks ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in Japan, according to a global warming policy analyst.
GLOBAL: NGOs call for more funds, investment in agriculture
NEW YORK Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community is to urge the G8 leaders to fully fund immediate emergency aid and to invest in longer-term agricultural development in poorer nations to tackle the global food crisis.
GLOBAL: US farm bill "too little, too late" for developing world
NEW YORK Tuesday, July 01, 2008 (IRIN) - New ground was broken in US attempts to break the link between foreign food aid and supporting its own farmers in a new farm bill, but for many, including the Bush-led administration, it was too little, too late.
GLOBAL: Jury still out over food impact of Midwest floods
NEW YORK Friday, June 27, 2008 (IRIN) - The worst floods in the Midwest in 15 years have helped maize prices surge to unprecedented levels, leading to calls for Washington to release more conservation land for cultivation and to reduce minimum ethanol production requirements.
GLOBAL: Killer kickbacks - corruption in water sector affects millions
NAIROBI Thursday, June 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Corruption is one of the main causes of a global crisis that deprives more than a billion people of access to safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion of access to sanitation systems, according to a new report by Transparency International.
LEBANON: Aid agencies grapple with coordination issues
BEIRUT Tuesday, June 24, 2008 (IRIN) - As the UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNRWA appeals for US$445 million for three years of reconstruction and recovery in and around Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, a mixed picture of aid agency coordination has emerged from interviews with key players.
LEBANON: Few rights, low pay for 200,000 migrant domestic workers
BEIRUT Sunday, June 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Loud screams break the quiet of a Beirut neighbourhood in the early hours of Sunday 15 June: It’s Angelique, a 26-year-old domestic worker from Congo, crying for the police as she runs to the balcony. From inside the apartment, a man’s voice yells her name, swearing in Arabic and French. There are the sounds of fists and slaps and more screams, before all falls silent.
LEBANON: UNRWA “not satisfied” with pace of reconstruction in Palestinian camp
BEIRUT Sunday, June 22, 2008 (IRIN) - One year on since the fighting between Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army destroyed most of the northern Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp and displaced up to 40,000 of its residents, the pace of reconstruction remains grindingly slow.
LEBANON: “Lost generation” of Iraqi refugee children
BEIRUT Thursday, June 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Of the 10 million refugees worldwide, half are children, estimates UK-based World Vision - children who will grow up as a “lost generation” unless more is done to address their needs.
GLOBAL: WFP goes for a makeover
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (IRIN) - The work of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is no longer going to be only about delivering food, the former "food aid agency" announced in its new strategy for the next three years (2008-2011); it would now bill itself as a "food assistance agency".
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