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Displaying 15 of about 21 resultsFundamental shifts in preparedness planning are needed to ensure health, safety, and smooth operations during emergencies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This rapid expert consultation details what is known from research on evacuation behavior, social responses to disaster, and risk communication, as well as lessons learned from emergency manag…
This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how to ensure better coverage, outlining eight steps to help shine a light on forgotten crises.
Using th…
In collaboration with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys will present an exhibition of contemporary art pieces from nine international artists to highlight disaster displacement during the Global Platform for Di…
These educational videos are meant to summarize the key actions governments and stakeholders can take to reduce disaster displacement. The videos, available in English (Timor-Leste), Tagalog (the Philippines), and Bahasa Indonesia, are based on the Checklist on Disaster Displacement and are meant to complement the Words into Action Guidelines on Disaste…
This paper explores the challenges of refugee resettlement by presenting three case studies of resettled refugees living in different geographic locations across New Zealand and outlines six principles of disaster communications to improve engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse groups. Refugee resettlement can present a challenge for disa…
The Permanent Mission of Tuvalu to the United Nations has proposed a resolution to create a legal framework for people displaced by climate change.
It will provide a forum to discuss paths forward through disaster risk reduction programs, legal guidelines, and potential land solutions.
The COP23 Oceans Action forum in Germany has heard the latest scie…
Global displacement trends and recent calls to action, such as expressed in The New Urban Agenda 2016, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants 2016, the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework 2018 and the forthcoming Global Compact on Refugees 2018, underline the need for strengthening a whole-of-society approach for ensuring the safety of…
By Marcos Cabello
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The study, published May 17 in Climate Risk Management, found that towns that didn't face significant damage after a disaster saw much more evacuation if they had low trust in government and strong social ties among people who are different from one another in terms of race, religion, class, gender or age. These findings show t…
For its tenth edition in 2019 the COAL Prize will, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys, tackle an essential subject: displacement related to disasters and climate change.
Since 2009, an estimated one person per second has been displaced following sudden-onset disasters. In 2017…
By Daniela Carlucci
Work is beginning to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 to almost 140,000 refugees and nearby communities in Cameroon.
The projects have been enabled by the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF), which has released funding, following a crisis alert on 20 March. The ‘anticipation alert’ was raised as aid a…
GENEVA - Widespread abuse of migrant workers and multiple examples of human rights violations were vividly highlighted by experts in the Asia and the Pacific Region speaking in a UNDRR-hosted webinar on “Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
The webinar’s 840 participants from 66 countries heard a call from the UN Office of the High Commis…
The National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) will release a ‘Know the Tsunami Warning Signs Video’ on Monday 5th November, 2018 to commemorate “World Tsunami Awareness Day.” This video was produced locally by NEMO in collaboration with a number of popular local Soca Artistes, through funding from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agen…
An effective communication approach incorporating computer simulations could help people find practical means to evacuate in the event of a tsunami.
The extent of damage caused by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan demonstrated that the outcomes of disaster mitigation research were not fully applied in reality. Computer simulations are normally use…
Participants who saw virtual reality of a storm were significantly more likely to say they would make home preparations or evacuate than those who saw traditional weather maps or text alerts
By Kate Ryan
NEW YORK - Virtual reality simulations work better than traditional alerts in motivating people to evacuate ahead of hurricanes, research said on Fri…
Artistic duo Lena Dobrowolska and Teo Ormond-Skeaping were awarded the COAL Prize on Thursday for their project You never know, one day you too may become a refugee during a ceremony organized at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, in the presence of Serge Lasvignes, President of the Georges Pompidou Center, ten nominated artists, members of…