integrated regional information networks type news agency founded nairobi 1995 headquarters geneva switzerland key people heba aly director website www.irinnews.org irin formerly integrated regional information networks acts as a news agency focusing on humanitarian stories in regions that are often forgotten under reported misunderstood or ignored . until 1 january 2015 irin was a project of the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs ocha . irin aims to create greater awareness and understanding of regional issues and events and to contribute to better informed and more effective humanitarian action media coverage and advocacy . the news service is widely used by the humanitarian aid community as well as academics and researchers . contents 1 origin and development 2 audience 3 humanitarian news and analysis 4 plusnews 5 irin services 5.1 film service 5.2 photo services 6 e mail subscriptions 7 donors 8 references 9 external links origin and development edit irin came into being in 1995 after the great lakes refugee crisis resulting from the 1994 rwandan genocide overwhelmed the existing information management systems set up by the humanitarian aid community . 1 with its headquarters in nairobi kenya 2 it now covers 82 countries including papua new guinea 3 since 2008 for more than a million readers . irin has regional news desks in nairobi johannesburg dakar dubai and bangkok with liaison offices in new york and geneva . the agency is managed by the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs . 4 its aim is to strengthen universal access to timely strategic and non partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of humanitarian community to understand respond to and avert emergencies . 5 the main language is english with a smaller number of articles available in french arabic portuguese swahili and dari . 1 audience edit the main users of irin news are people working in the humanitarian aid community followed by academics consultants government officials and other media newspapers and other print publications websites radio stations and television broadcasters where other readers often pick up irin content . humanitarian news and analysis edit reports provided by irin essentially provide an early warning and help generate humanitarian responses . 6 irin news is distributed free of charge to subscribers by e mail and via the website . 7 there is also a range of multi media services plusnews 8 a specialised hiv aids news service irin film 9 which produces news footage for international media and short documentary films for advocacy irin photo 10 gallery makes images available free of charge irin in depth 11 reports have covered sexual violence in conflict areas refugee repatriation landmines and the humanitarian fallout of climate change and the global food crisis . irin covers the following countries africa angola benin botswana burkina faso burundi cameroon cape verde central african republic chad comoros c te d ivoire djibouti democratic republic of the congo equatorial guinea eritrea ethiopia gabon gambia ghana guinea guinea bissau kenya lesotho liberia libya madagascar malawi mali mauritania mauritius morocco mozambique namibia niger nigeria republic of the congo rwanda s o tom and pr ncipe senegal seychelles sierra leone somalia south africa sudan swaziland tanzania togo uganda western sahara zambia zimbabwe . asia afghanistan bangladesh cambodia indonesia iran kazakhstan kyrgyzstan laos myanmar nepal pakistan papua new guinea philippines sri lanka tajikistan thailand timor leste turkmenistan uzbekistan vietnam . middle east egypt iraq israel jordan lebanon oman opt saudi arabia syria united arab emirates yemen . plusnews edit hiv aids is a significant factor in many humanitarian crises . in 2001 irin created plusnews 12 which has a specialised focus on people living with hiv and aids . the service has gradually expanded coverage to all of the irin countries . in 2004 a french version plusnews fran ais 13 was set up for west and central africa and plusnews portuguese 14 was launched in 2006 . plusnews now also provides news in arabic . 15 the service has become one of the largest providers of original hiv and aids reporting . irin services edit film service edit in 2003 irin created a short film on the impact of the lord s resistance army in northern uganda . other films have covered female genital mutilation the 2004 west africa locust swarm opium cultivation in afghanistan and the humanitarian impact of climate change . key media networks that have recently used footage include cnn cbc cbs abc pbs tv5 bbc and sabc . watch irin documentaries online . 16 photo services edit irin has made its photo library of still images from humanitarian crises all over the world available for free online in support of humanitarian advocacy . e mail subscriptions edit when irin was established in 1995 the organisation depended heavily on e mail communication . the online service is still supported by an email service and over 30 000 readers depend on personalised e mail 17 for delivery of irin s content . donors edit the major funders of irin are the international aid agencies of canada the united kingdom germany ireland japan the netherlands norway qatar south africa sweden and switzerland the united nations environment programme unep and international humanitarian city ihc in dubai . 1 references edit a b c about irin un humanitarian news and analysis network launches arabic service . reuters . alertnet.org . july 24 2007 . irinnews.org irinnews.org europa publications limited . africa south of the sahara 2004 . routledge . p. 1035 day peter ; schuler douglas 2004 . community practice in the network society local action global interaction . routledge . p. 33 . ramcharan b. g. 2008 . preventive diplomacy at the un . indiana university press . p. 164 . irinnews.org plusnews.org irinnews.org irinnews.org irinnews.org plusnews.org irinnews.org 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