ASIA: IRIN Digest - March 2015

	humanitarian news and analysis

Table of contents 1. IRIN's Top Picks: Aid worker anxiety, conflict pollution and DRR 2. How disasters drive displacement - and what should be done about it 3. Coaxing the dragon: Why China should join the great aid debate 4. Outsourcing asylum 5. What you need to know about DRR 6. What terrorism does: Fear and anger for Christians after Pakistan bombs 7. IRIN's Top Picks: Bad jokes, innovation and apathy 8. Millions of aid dollars lost in currency swings 9. Record-breaking year for asylum claims: 8 key trends 10. Killing us softly 11. Top picks: Blackboards, zakat and currency dives IRIN's Top Picks: Aid worker anxiety, conflict pollution and DRR LONDON , 13 March 2015 (IRIN) - Welcome to IRIN's reading list. Every week our global network of specialist correspondents share some of 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. Read report online How disasters drive displacement - and what should be done about it LONDON, 13 March 2015 (IRIN) - The risk of people being displaced by natural disasters has quadrupled in the last 40 years and, unless governments adopt national and global plans to address the main drivers of displacement, increasing numbers of people will lose their homes to floods, earthquakes and landslides in the future. Read report online Coaxing the dragon: Why China should join the great aid debate LONDON, 17 March 2015 (IRIN) - Amid the countless meetings, summits and conferences being held around the world to determine the post-2015 development agenda and the future of humanitarian aid, how much attention is being paid to the growing role of China? Not enough perhaps, but the wariness cuts both ways. James Wan, fellow at the Wits University China-Africa Reporting Project in South Africa, argues it's time for China to get its hands dirty in the great aid debate. Read report online Outsourcing asylum LONDON, 17 March 2015 (IRIN) - As the EU considers outsourcing asylum screening to North Africa, our Migration Editor looks at what lessons can be learned from Australia's use of offshore processing for asylum seekers. Read report online What you need to know about DRR NAIROBI, 18 March 2015 (IRIN) - A new global plan to prepare for future natural and climate-linked disasters agreed in Sendai, Japan today has been condemned by development NGOs as lacking in ambition and short-changing poorer countries that are most at risk. Read report online What terrorism does: Fear and anger for Christians after Pakistan bombs LAHORE, 19 March 2015 (IRIN) - A few days after bombings targeting Pakistani churches, the country's Christian minority is angry about the present but fearful for its future. Read report online IRIN's Top Picks: Bad jokes, innovation and apathy DUBAI , 20 March 2015 (IRIN) - Welcome to IRIN's reading list. Every week our global network of specialist correspondents share some of 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. Read report online Millions of aid dollars lost in currency swings BEIRUT/GENEVA, 26 March 2015 (IRIN) - Currency fluctuations this year could cost relief agencies hundreds of millions of dollars in lost income, threatening aid to millions of people around the world. Read report online Record-breaking year for asylum claims: 8 key trends OXFORD, 26 March 2015 (IRIN) - 2014 was a year of records for asylum claims, according to an annual round-up released today by the UN Refugee Agency, which noted that 866,000 claims were made in the world's industrialized nations, double the figure for 2013. Read report online Killing us softly HONG KONG, 27 March 2015 (IRIN) - Of the 100 million Chinese who watched a documentary - later censored - about air pollution in their country, 172,000 are likely to die each year from air pollution-related diseases. Read report online Top picks: Blackboards, zakat and currency dives DUBAI, 27 March 2015 (IRIN) - Welcome to IRIN's weekly assortment of journalism and research about the humanitarian world that piqued our interest. This week how aid destroyed a culture, channeling Islamic duty into the humanitarian system and has 'development' run its course? Read report online

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