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1. IRIN’s Top Picks: Refugees, regime change and statistics
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2. Photo Feature: On the migration road in Macedonia <#14e0e468d6ba289b_2>
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*IRIN’s Top Picks: Refugees, regime change and statistics
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=101653>*
[image: lead photo]DUBAI, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) - Welcome to IRIN's reading
list. Every week our global network of specialist correspondents share
their top picks of recent must-read research, interviews, reports, blogs
and in-depth articles to help you keep on top of global crises. We also
highlight key upcoming conferences, book releases and policy debates.
*Five to read:*
*The World at War <http://www.unhcr.org/556725e69.html>*
The UN Refugee Agency’s 2014 year in review makes for grim reading.
According to UNHCR, by the end of 2014, just short of 60 million people
were “forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict,
generalized violence, or human rights violations”. Read this report for a
detailed statistical overview of where people are fleeing from, why, and
where they are going, as well as how global governments and aid
organisations are responding to this escalating crisis.
*Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2015
<http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/report/gha-report-2015?utm_source=Development+Initiatives+Poverty+Research+Limited&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5771398_GHA+report+mail+out+template&dm_i=1E6I,3FP8M,JKSACH,CAONO,1>*
Another newly-published compendium of statistics, the Global Humanitarian
Assistance Report, produced by the Development Initiatives think tank,
provides a useful overview of emergency aid funding flows. During 2014,
international humanitarian assistance rose for a second year running to a
record US$24.5 billion. Read this to find out which governments dug
deepest, where their money went, and what the alternatives are to non-state
funding for emergency relief.
*The first month: examining the humanitarian relief response to the 2014
Nepal earthquakes <http://disasteraccountability.org>*
Stronger on dogged digging than fancy presentation, this comprehensive
197-page report from the Disaster Accountability Project (DAP) analyses the
fine print of aid agency donation pages to find out what was planned with
Nepal money. They found a number of inconsistencies in NGO fundraising
appeals as well as ambiguous statements on charity donations pages about
the uses of funds. The team also examined “self-reported data” provided by
more than 50 organisations, finding “too many organizations in the disaster
relief/humanitarian aid sector lack basic transparency and often forget
that as NGOs, they have a mandate to be accountable to the pubic in
addition to their largest donors”.
*Regime Change for Humanitarian Aid
<https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/regime-change-humanitarian-aid?cid=soc-tw-rdr>*
This long read from Foreign Affairs dissects the humanitarian sector,
pointing out its achievements but also its many challenges, home-grown or
otherwise. Its academic co-authors, Michael Barnett (author of Empire of
Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism) and Peter Walker (co-author of
Shaping the Humanitarian World) pay particular attention to the failure by
international agencies to develop “true” partnerships with local actors and
lament the sector’s limited accountability. They call for a “less
paternalistic” approach from the main donor governments and their relief
arms and, referring to emerging donors, warn that “new global forces
promise to knock the club off its pedestal if it fails to adapt, and the
consequences could be dire for both humanitarian workers and disaster
victims”.
*Fit for the Future? Development trends and the role of international NGOs
<http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/fit-for-the-future-development-trends-and-the-role-of-international-ngos-556585>*
Oxfam’s Duncan Green presents an important summary of the main global
trends in international development and looks at the upcoming ideas and
challenges for the sector. He cautions against “the folly of simple, linear
interventions and the merits of alternative approaches” and warns that “a
simplistic interpretation of private sector thinking is pushing aid
agencies towards a linear ‘Fordist’ [assembly line] approach to going to
scale, even though large parts of the private sector have long since
abandoned that approach in favour of systems thinking, disruption and
innovation”.
*From IRIN:*
*Refugee versus migrant: time for a new label?
<http://www.irinnews.org/report/101636/refugee-versus-migrant-time-for-a-new-label>*
The world is in the grip of an unprecedented migration crisis and stories
about refugees, migrants and asylum seekers are high on the news media's
agenda. But what do these labels really mean? Our migration editor Kristy
Siegfried took a look at migration terminology and its legal and social
connotations. Other IRIN migration-focussed stories this week
included: the tale
of two friends from Yarmouk
<http://www.irinnews.org/report/101648/would-you-advise-a-friend-to-follow-you-across-the-mediterranean>
Palestinian camp in Syria who have made their way to Denmark and Turkey; a
column from anthropologist and author of “Illegality, Inc.”, Ruben
Andersson about the folly of reactive border control measures
<http://www.irinnews.org/report/101644/why-border-controls-are-now-a-global-game>;
and a look at the thousands of refugee children in western Mali who are at
risk of being stuck in the legal limbo of statelessness
<http://www.irinnews.org/report/101647/stateless-in-the-sahel>
lr/am.
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*Photo Feature: On the migration road in Macedonia
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=101654>*
[image: lead photo]SKOPJE, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) - The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, a country of just two million inhabitants, has
become a major thoroughfare for migrants and asylum-seekers intent on
reaching northern Europe and avoiding the deadly sea crossing from Libya to
Italy. But the route through Macedonia has many dangers of its own.
Following the railway from the Greek border, they must travel on foot for
200 kilometres to the border with Serbia. The hazards along the way include
criminal gangs, speeding trains, police beatings, detention and kidnapping.
Click here <http://newirin.irinnews.org/on-the-migration-road-in-macedonia>
to view a new multimedia feature, the third part of IRIN’s series following
the increasingly popular Western Balkans migration route.
Access report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=101654>
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