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Integrated Regional Information Networks - IRIN (IRIN)

Contact data:

Ms. Pat Banks, IRIN Coordinator,
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 00 254-2-622123
Email: banks@ocha.unon.org
Website: www.reliefweb.int/IRIN

Year established:

1994 

Membership No:

1181

Organisation aims and activities: IRIN was among the first organisations to realise the potential of e-mail in Africa for sharing and distributing information among those who needed it and crucially those it affected. In addition, information was received from groups of people hitherto excluded from participation in events on their doorstep.IRIN’s information is available in a range of forms.


Operational level: International


Organisation type: United Nations agency


Organisation mandate: Work with media and press


Areas of expertise: Armed conflict, Child participation, Children and the media, Children living with HIV/AIDS, Children with disabilities, Children working and living on the street, Economic rights, Education and cultural rights, Emergency relief, Environment and habitat, Family and alternative care, Gender and girls, Health and welfare, Individual cases of violations, Justice, Minority or indigenous children, Refugee and unaccompanied children, Reporting to and monitoring the CRC, Sexual exploitation and abuse


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Last updated 17/01/2002 09:57:45

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