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Thousands of people took to the streets of southern Iraq in July 2018. Their anger stemmed from a litany of problems, everything from poor public services to lack of job opportunities to widespread government corruption. Many lacked access to clean water, with more than 120,000 people hospitalized after drinking pollut…
More than 230,000 children* who have been forced to flee their homes in 2019 because of conflict are facing a desperate plight in Northern Syria, where several areas including displacement camps have been hit by flooding and cold weather, warns Save the Children.
In North West Syria, several camps have already flooded and about 500 tents have been dest…
By Fatima Shahryar
Children in local schools receive trainings on emergency preparedness and safety skills
Swat, Pakistan - “My mother calls me Guloona, which means flowers in Pashto”, says thirteen-year-old Laleena Baseer, a student at the Government Girls Middle School (GGMS) located in the village of Araq in Swat District. “She tells…
IIASA-led research has established a causal link between climate, conflict, and migration for the first time, something which has been widely suggested in the media but for which scientific evidence is scarce.
There are numerous examples in recent decades in which climatic conditions have been blamed for creating political unrest, civil war, and subseq…
Today the international aid organization, CARE, launched a new report highlighting the ten most underreported humanitarian crises of 2018. Climate change plays an increasing and often exacerbating role in humanitarian crises that have been neglected by the global public, such as in Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti.
“Not only are the people who live in th…
As global water supplies run low, agreements on how to share water across borders are crucial - but few are in place yet, researchers say
By Laurie Goering
LONDON - Efforts to share rivers, lakes and aquifers that cross national boundaries are falling short, raising a growing risk of conflict as global water supplies run low, researchers warned o…
By Obi Anyadike, Senior Editor
Severe flooding in South Sudan has affected close to a million people, threatening to reverse some of the humanitarian gains made during a year-long ceasefire in the country’s civil war, aid workers and UN officials say.
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The UN’s emergency aid coordination body, OCHA, said floods have hit a total of 32 countie…
By Hassan Ghedi Santur
The failure of seasonal rains earlier this year in Somalia threatened more than two million people with hunger as their crops shrivelled in the fields and livestock died from the lack of water and pasture.
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Before Somalia collapsed into civil war in 1991, a system of canals channelled water from the Shabelle to irrigate th…
A three-part podcast series exploring a new future for disaster risk reduction and how conflict is part of it.
It examines what we can do to change this, in ways that not only help people cope with future disaster impacts but also contribute to peace. It asks why so little has been done to improve disaster risk reduction in fragile and conflict-affecte…
By Kitty Van Der Heijden, Africa and Europe Director, World Resources Institute; and Callie Stinson, Project Lead, Water Initiative, World Economic Forum
The most intensive drought ever recorded in Syria lasted from 2006 to 2011. Water scarcity hit households, businesses and infrastructure, while in the countryside crops failed, livestock died, and en…
BANGKOK, 12 December 2019 - In many crisis settings, emergency response has been seen to be in a holding pattern, responding year on-year to the same needs without promoting lasting positive change in people’s lives. Yet humanitarian needs are expected to grow in the coming years as climate change is causing an increase in the intensity and frequency of…
BRUSSELS, 4 July 2019 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) and the Ministry of the Interior for Finland have joined together to develop a new stress test tool that will help countries understand and improve their ability to reduce risk of hybrid threats and casc…
This paper argues that DRR frameworks and policies require a more nuanced and flexible approach when dealing with ‘the state’. State-centred frameworks, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, give ‘primary responsibility’ to the state for managing and reducing disaster risk. This assumes that all states are institutionally stable an…
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Extreme weather and other climate risks poses a multi-faceted and increasingly urgent security challenge for many fragile states. Physical and livelihood risks to the population can force states to redirect scarce resources to climate resilience or humanitarian response efforts, further straining the capacity of under-devel…
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the glob…