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'This ensures that more of the world's disaster managers are available to the international community to share their valuable knowledge and expertise on how to prepare for and respond to disasters' said OCHA's Arjun Katoch...
The UN High Commissioner for refugees warned of new forms of displacement, with natural hazards on the rise due to climate change 'Conflict, climate change and extreme deprivation will inter-relate, strengthening each other as a cause of displacement' he said.
The UN today launched guidelines to help States pre-emptively amass the data vital for effective relief operations to avoid compounding the original catastrophe...
The United Nations has deployed a team of geologists to Honduras to help authorities in the Central American country identify risk zones for landslides and mudslides in the wake of Tropical Storm Paloma...
Margareta Wahlström becomes Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the UNISDR Secretariat...
'Bangladesh is an example to the world community on how a vulnerable developing country can strengthen its resilience against recurrent catastrophic events' said Ban Ki-moon during a visit on the final leg of a four-nation Asia trip....
'If urgent action is not taken on the disaster risk reduction front, then we’re simply going to see more tragedies in the future,' warned John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Relief Coordinator....
'Even before this latest series of hurricanes and tropical storms, Haiti was particularly vulnerable to extreme weather,' said John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs....
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