The pope and Tacloban - Opinion
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Huffington Post Inc.
'Typhoon Haiyan was an object lesson in how poverty and disasters are intertwined...[it] affected the poorest of the poor most,' writes Margareta Wahlström, in an opinion piece in the Huffington Post.
'The pope's visit to the Philippines and his solidarity with the poor of Tacloban should speak volumes to world leaders and government ministers tasked with adopting a series of new global agreements this year for tackling poverty over the next 15 to 20 years,' Wahlström adds.
Margareta Wahlström is currently the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and was the UN Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance to the Tsunami-Affected Countries (2004-2005).