As the Poznan Climate Change conference enters its final days, IRIN, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is pleased to announce the launch of eight short videos exploring the human cost of climate change in Africa.

Tens of millions of people around the world have been forced to flee their homes, but unlike refugees who are protected by international law, they remain within the borders of their own countries. They are the displaced. Some of these people have been driven out by war, others by economic or political forces. Most have been displaced by natural disaster. Forced to Flee - October 2008

Tens of millions of people around the world have been forced to flee their homes, but unlike refugees who are protected by international law, they remain within the borders of their own countries. They are the displaced.

Some of these people have been driven out by war, others by economic or political forces. Most have been displaced by natural disaster.

It’s been three years since a peace accord put an end to the civil war between north and south Sudan. The conflict, which began in 1983, displaced millions of civilians. Many fled to neighbouring Uganda. Now there’s a steady flow of refugees returning to Sudan.

Indonesia is home to an estimated half a million injecting drug users. As many as 70 percent of them are HIV positive. Seen through the eyes of two ex-addicts who have dedicated themselves to informing their communities about the risks of sharing needles, A Cleaner Fix takes you into the world of the drug user and those who try to help them.

Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.

After years of conflict and isolation, Somalia finds itself once more in turmoil. Much of the country was under the control of the Union of Islamic Courts, until their recent defeat.

As many as one million unexploded cluster bombs litter southern Lebanon following the recent war with Israel. In the first two months after the war ended more than a hundred people have been killed or injured by these munitions.

Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.