Christian leaders across the world are asking the international community to help stop violence in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state.

Is humanitarian military intervention correctly characterised 'lesser evil'? John Heathershaw considers five questions about the nature and the prospects of intervention in Libya. He asks poignantly where the responsibility is in the much-vaunted ‘responsibility to protect’?

HelpAge International has released a study highlighting the large gap in responding to the needs of vulnerable older people in humanitarian emergencies.