As our special report outlined in May, civilians in rebel-held eastern Ukraine are cut off from government-controlled territory and have highly restricted access to goods,...
Galina Vodzinskaya, 60, has been walking for five kilometers in 27 degrees Celsius weather in eastern Ukraine but is nowhere near done her journey. She...
More than 125,000 migrants and asylum-seekers have crossed the Mediterranean so far this year, all carrying the hope that they will be able to start...
The 13-month conflict between government forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 6,300 lives, displaced 1.3 million people and left...
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...
Against a global background of steadily climbing food prices, IRIN lists a selection of websites that offer some useful insights into how, why and where...
Avoiding exposing vulnerable people to further harm, ensuring their access to impartial aid and assisting them to claim their rights and recover from abuse are...
With the majority (88 percent) of the world's 1.2 billion adolescents living in developing countries, investing in their education and training could break entrenched cycles...
More than two billion people, mostly in low-income countries, lack adequate access to life-saving surgical procedures, which is a potential obstacle to achieving health-related Millennium...
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