Residents of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province say flooding in August followed by an earthquake in September have been too much to bear, coming as they did just a few years after a devastating cyclone.
The influx of Syrian refugees into the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq in recent days has left the aid agencies struggling to provide health care for the new arrivals.
The violence in Syria has triggered an increasing internal migration in the areas affected by the conflict, mirroring broader divisions in society with groups on both sides fearing genocide.
In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure: Fear.
In recent years, the legality and civilian casualties of the secretive American drone programme have increasingly been the subject of much discussion. But one question has gone largely unasked: What is the impact of drone warfare on humanitarian work?