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Displaying 50 of about 50 resultsThis document presents a South-East Asia specific disaster risk reduction framework that provides more specific guidance to National Societies in acknowledgement of the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience and global guidance, which outlines the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to disaster risk reduction and guides National Society contributions…
Even though legislative institutions and competent authorities do their best to ensure a high level of security within and around establishments with high risk profiles, all these efforts still proved insufficient to prevent industrial disasters of extraordinary magnitude from happening in Japan (Fukushima, 2011), Hungary (red sludge catastrophe of Kolo…
Trece Martires City, Cavite - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region IV-A hosted recently a two-day workshop on preparedness and response to oil spill held at Splash Mountain Resort in Los Banos, Laguna.
The workshop was attended by members of the Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (DRRMC) from the eight coastal towns…
Fredrik Dahl reports for Reuters that the U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis.
A document from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), obtained by Reuters on Monday, outlined a…
Highlights of the Spokesperson’s Noon Briefing
By Farhan Haq, Acting Deputy Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
The Secretary-General visited the Japanese city of Fukushima today, and he told reporters afterwards that he had paid his respects in memory of the many people who lost their lives. He said that he could not express how sad he was…