IRIN’s principal role is to provide news and analysis about sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia for the humanitarian community.
Surviving Rape
An IRIN Films video in the Kids in the City series exploring South Africa’s efforts to educate very young children in the townships on how to avoid and survive rape.
Breaking Rocks
An IRIN Films video in the Kids in the City series on children in Sierra Leone who work in stone quarries breaking rocks to be able to afford school fees.
Forced to Flee – Cambodia’s Rapid Development
This video from IRIN, a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, presents the moving story of 50-year-old Sum Rin, displaced from a shanty town in the centre of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to make way for a new commercial development.
Drug-Resistant TB
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing global threat. Between 2004 and 2008, more than 24,000 cases of MDR-TB were diagnosed in South Africa but the total numbers are estimated to be even higher. In response, the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières and the City of Cape Town Health Department designed a community-based pilot project for the treatment and support of people with drug-resistant TB in Khayelitsha, an informal settlement of about 1.5 million people.
Produced by IRIN Films.
Kala Azar
Kala Azar is a deadly, yet treatable parasitic disease which affects half a million people a year across the world. It is endemic in many parts of India and east Africa, including the Pokot region of northwest Kenya, where international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has had great success with a treatment programme. But lack of access to information and adequate medical care in much of Kenya allows Kala Azar to kill thousands of people every year.
Produced by IRIN Global.
Slum Survivors Part 3
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Slum Survivors Part 2
Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty. FOR SLUM SURVIVORS PART 3, CLICK HERE
Forced to Flee – The Philippines
An IRIN film about Pepito Akero, who is taking care of his children in a displaced persons camp in Legaspi, The Philippines, after a landslide killed his wife and ruined his rice fields.
Slum Survivors Part 1
Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums, with as many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Most of Kibera’s residents have to scrape a living outside the formal economy. Somehow they survive. SLUM SURVIVORS tells the stories of six people who live in Kibera and their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.
Gem Slaves
Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.
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Gem Slaves – Part 2
Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.
