Welcome to IRIN's reading list. Every week our global network of specialist correspondents share their top picks of recent must-read research, podcasts, reports, blogs and...
Aid agencies have no problem agreeing that gender-sensitive programming is a good idea, but few have come up with concrete methods for evaluating the impact...
Kenya this week began building a barrier along its entire border with Somalia, in a purported effort to prevent incursions by fighters from al-Shabab, an...
A threat from Kenya’s deputy president to send back hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the wake of the Garissa university shooting has prompted...
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...
Job-creation schemes are the traditional way to tackle the post-conflict problem of unemployed ex-fighters and to reduce the threat they can pose to peace and...
![[Liberia] Fighters loyal to former Liberian president Charles Taylor line up to surrender their weapons to UN peacekeepers at a disarmament camp in Ganta, Nimba county, September 2004.](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_medium/public/images/200492214.jpg?4igkN5ZpMjXTy5ljPoK7xaIYUV.I9GVH&itok=cGzdtpfj)