ASIA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 516 28 November 2014

	humanitarian news and analysis a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Table of contents 1. The world's strangest land grab? 2. Peak youth - seizing the moment 3. Bangladesh's Rohingya camps - promise or peril? 4. IRIN's top reads this week The world's strangest land grab? MAZAR-I-SHARIF, 24 November 2014 (IRIN) - Every year the Amu Darya river encroaches about 500 metres into Afghanistan, taking with it large swathes of territory and leaving hundreds of families homeless. And as the official border between the countries is defined as the middle of the river, Uzbekistan has laid claim to hundreds of square kilometres of Afghan territory. Read report online Peak youth - seizing the moment LONDON, 25 November 2014 (IRIN) - We have accepted the concept "peak oil" - the point where oil production goes into an irreversible decline. Now we are being asked to contemplate that we are also rapidly approaching "peak youth", when there will be more young people than ever before in the history of the planet, and when young people as a proportion of the population will reach a maximum, before starting to drop. Read report online Bangladesh's Rohingya camps - promise or peril? COX'S BAZAR, 25 November 2014 (IRIN) - Bangladesh's announcement that it will move two camps housing some 30,000 officially documented Rohingya refugees has heightened anxieties among the Muslim minority, who fled persecution in neighbouring Myanmar. Observers applaud the possibility of improving camp conditions, but are concerned the move could also increase insecurity. Read report online IRIN's top reads this week DUBAI, 27 November 2014 (IRIN) - Want to know what those in the humanitarian community reading? Each week we present our five must reads from the development world. Read report online

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