The story
Early years as IRIN
IRIN was launched in 1995 after the Great Lakes refugee crisis resulting from the 1994 Rwandan genocide with the aim of providing reliable reports on humanitarian crises and responses. IRIN was set up with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and regional news desks in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Dakar, Dubai, and Bangkok, with liaison offices in New York and Geneva. The agency was managed by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
PlusNews
In 2001, IRIN created PlusNews, a news service dedicated exclusively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The service gradually expanded to include French, Portuguese, and Arabic. It became one of the largest providers of original HIV and AIDS reporting. One of its documentary series, "Heroes of HIV", earned an honorable mention at the 14th annual Webby Awards.
In 2005, an IRIN video documentary "Our bodies... their battleground" that focused on sexual violence against women in Congo and Liberia won "Best Feature" at the UN Documentary Film Festival.
The New Humanitarian
On 1 January 2015, IRIN became an independent non-profit news organization. On 21 March 2019, it rebranded to The New Humanitarian.
In 2020, in partnership with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The New Humanitarian investigated the widespread abuse of women who worked for humanitarian agencies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while responding to the Kivu Ebola outbreak.
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