The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) has launched the web special "Hear Our Voices", devoted exclusively to the many people caught up in crises who are often written about, filmed and discussed, but seldom have the opportunity to tell their stories to the world. The aim of this web special is to provide members of the global humanitarian community with a window onto their concerns, their fears, their needs and their efforts and to give the people affected by crises in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia an opportunity to tell the global humanitarian family how such crises affect their lives, their families and their communities.