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 Health/MHPS UNRWA/NGOs Updates:
o MDM Psychosocial coordinator and UNRWA MDG-F Officer introduced the “IASC Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Guidelines for Interventions in Emergencies”. The handbook which was prepared in 2006 is considered a tool for organization working on MHPS to coordinate, plan and implement their activities in emergency settings. The speakers invited participants to a one day workshop to explore the content of this handbook, to train them on how to use it while implementing their projects and how to benefit of all the tools in the book.

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BEIRUT Monday, August 30, 2010 (IRIN) - Recent amendments to Lebanese law grant work permits to Palestinians in the private sector, and some welfare benefits, and are an important step in the right direction, according to the UN’s agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), but many Palestinians say they fall short of what they had hoped for.

VIENNA Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - Most of the estimated 5.2 million people worldwide on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are taking generic versions manufactured primarily in India, but tighter global intellectual property rights and trade rules could shut down "the pharmacy of the developing world".

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 22, 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.

VIENNA Thursday, July 22, 2010 (IRIN) - This is my second International AIDS Conference and now I know for sure, Mexico wasn’t a fluke – I really do love these gatherings. I love the passion of the speakers, the excitement the boffins create around their new research and the “let’s all get behind this” spirit the activists bring.

DAKAR Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN consulted the heads of some of the largest NGO networks on what they thought should be the top priorities of the incoming UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, who is expected to take up her role within two or three months.

NAIROBI Tuesday, July 13, 2010 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly.

NAIROBI Monday, July 05, 2010 (IRIN) - "Crowd-sourcing" is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.

JOHANNESBURG Friday, July 02, 2010 (IRIN) - New drugs to fight malaria may well lie at the bottom of the ocean, according to researchers studying over 2,500 samples from marine organisms collected at depths of over 900 metres. They have already found 300 that contain substances that can kill the parasite.

DUBAI Wednesday, June 30, 2010 (IRIN) - Statistics on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East are hard to come by but a new study launched on 28 June in the United Arab Emirates has attempted to gather all existing data into one place and add some analysis and action points for policymakers.

NAIROBI Monday, June 28, 2010 (IRIN) - The aid world is an acronym jungle. Sometimes there are simply not enough good ones to go around, so they get used twice.

MADRID Tuesday, June 22, 2010 (IRIN) - For the past 62 years, millions of Palestinians have been living as refugees in areas of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and in surrounding host countries - mostly in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has described their plight as “by far the most protracted and largest of all refugee problems in the world today”. IRIN takes a fresh look at their number and whereabouts.

KAMPALA Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (IRIN) - The decision to include the crime of aggression under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a step forward for international justice but raises expectations that the court may be unable to meet, say analysts.

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, June 09, 2010 (IRIN) - Diversify food sources; go local, suggests renowned agriculturalist and development expert Hans Herren in the latest news publication by the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN).

JOHANNESBURG Friday, June 04, 2010 (IRIN) - Don't wait for severely malnourished children to turn up at therapeutic feeding centres in a developing country, rather prevent this by providing them with nutritious food aid, international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) told donors and governments this week.

NAIROBI Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN has been named a Webby Honoree in the 14th Annual Webby Awards.

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, April 08, 2010 (IRIN) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched the fourth edition of "Facts for Life", a handbook filled with information that could save the lives of some nine million children across the globe who die from preventable and treatable illnesses every year before they reach the age of five.

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, April 01, 2010 (IRIN) - Keeping an eye on the toads in your neighbourhood could give you a five-day head start in the event of massive seismic activity, says a new study published by the Zoological Society of London in the Journal of Zoology, but don't put one in a jar on your desk just yet.

OXFORD Monday, March 29, 2010 (IRIN) - Some 36 bilateral and multilateral development donors have made their aid and loan figures available online for the first time, enabling analysts to build a more accurate picture of who is funding what and where.