MIDDLE EAST: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 511 21 November 2014

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

Table of contents 1. ICN2: Feast and famine - trends in nutrition 2. Trade and transfat in the Pacific 3. Outrage over UAE's new terror list 4. Yemen crisis a boon for people smugglers 5. IRIN's top reads this week 6. PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN ICN2: Feast and famine - trends in nutrition DUBAI/BANGKOK, 17 November 2014 (IRIN) - More than 20 years on from the first ever International Conference on Nutrition, its successor is due to take place in Rome this week. Yet what do those in the nutrition sector think should be focussed upon? Read report online Trade and transfat in the Pacific BANGKOK, 17 November 2014 (IRIN) - Diminished agricultural production and unhealthy imports are contributing to some of the world's highest obesity and diabetes rates in the Pacific Islands. Thousands of kilometres away from this backdrop, high-level officials are gathering for the only second-ever global nutrition conference in Rome, starting 19 November, to consolidate agreement on an international framework to improve nutrition. Read report online Outrage over UAE's new terror list DUBAI, 18 November 2014 (IRIN) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sparked anger and confusion by including several prominent Western Muslim charities and civil society groups in a new list of "terrorist organizations" together with Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and the so-called Islamic State. Read report online Yemen crisis a boon for people smugglers SANAA, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - Yemen's security crisis is leading to a rapid expansion in the country's people smuggling trade, with thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa desperate to use the country as a gateway to Saudi Arabia. Read report online IRIN's top reads this week DUBAI, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - IRIN's reading list offers the top reads for those in the humanitarian sector every week. Read report online PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN GENEVA, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - After nearly 20 years as part of the United Nations, the humanitarian news service IRIN is spinning off to become an independent non-profit media venture, with the support of a major private donor Read report online

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