Japan to host world conference on disaster risk reduction next year

UNNC

Delegates at this week’s 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction called for immediately starting work on developing targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk, ahead of next year’s conference, to be held in the Japanese city of Sendai...

• New €100,000 risk award announced at close of 4th global platform

  UNISDR

  Details were announced today of the 2014 RISK Award - 'Disaster Emergency - Resilience for the Most Vulnerable' and a call was made for applications for the Award which includes a grant of €100,000 for a project in disaster emergency planning which focuses on the most vulnerable...

• People with disabilities fight for their rights in disasters

  AlertNet

  Jo Matsuzaki, an associate professor at Japan's Miyagi University of Education, is deaf and lived through the quake. 'I believe strongly that in all phases - from the time that the disaster happens, to relief and rehabilitation - people with disabilities should be visible, included and cared for,' he said at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva...