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Displaying 30 of about 196 resultsThis document, a product of unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities, provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to disease outbreaks and emergencies caused by weather-, climate- and water-related hazards, most…
The MDG Report 2011 highlights where progress is being made and where stronger efforts are urgently needed to meet each of the eight Goals. The report presents the latest statistics on each of the Goals, globally and regionally, collected through more than 25 UN and international agencies. This year's report shows that the world is on track to reducing…
The European Union has announced additional funding of €15 million in order to continue delivering immediate relief to the victims of two humanitarian crises in Pakistan. These funds will provide assistance to those affected by the on-going conflict in the north of the country as well as to the victims of three successive years of major flooding in the…
The Nansen Initiative has held inter-governmental Regional Consultations and civil society meetings in the Pacific, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe to explore the protection and assistance needs of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters and the effects of climate change. This booklet presents the main lessons learned and conc…
According to Reuters AlertNet, experts show evidence that 'the more developed a country, the better it tends to cope with natural disasters and conflicts.' They urge governments and aid agencies to pursue the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and development policies, in coordination with progress on disaster risk reduction, linking them to natural re…
Humanitarian and development workers trying to reduce disaster risk too often ignore conflict in their interventions, experts say
By Zoe Tabary
Efforts to protect the poorest from threats such as hurricanes and floods will fall short unless they take into account the on-the-ground realities of countries beset by conflict or poor governance, huma…
Suva, Fiji Islands, 9-11 May 2007:
The overall objective of this document is to increase the awareness and skills of UN staff and national and regional counterparts, especially those involved in disaster relief and recovery operations and programming, about the relevance of human rights issues in disaster management. It looks forward to increase awaren…
Objectives and purpose of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
Understanding the causes of vulnerability is a prerequisite for ensuring human security and decreasing human vulnerability, but it is not enough. The complexity of the factors that determine vulnerability and the ability to cope with extreme natural for…
Studies Of University: Research, Counsel, Education (SOURCE) no. 1/2005
This document analyses and summarises the drivers and components of the unfolding process of defining and conceptualising human security in the environmental context. Next to the intellectual and scientific dimension, this publication analyses also the intergovernmental and politic…
This brochure is a joint paper of the United Nations Millennium Campaign in Asia and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) advocating for the commitment of the Asian Countries in progressing towards the fulfillment of the millennium development goals (MDGs) by addressing issues related to disaster risk reduction.
It was developed for the 2nd As…
This document captures the overall framework for World Food Programme’s policies in an updated version including policies endorsed by the Board in 2007–2008 on World Food Programme’s private-sector partnership and fundraising strategy.
One section of this document addresses policy decisions relating to the review of disaster mitigation, reaching mother…
As climate-change negotiators enter the final stages of yet another global gathering (COP 17), rising sea levels spell disaster in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, writes David Williamson for WalesOnline. Scientists predict that perhaps as early as the middle of this century Kiribati will be submerged under rising seas, and its people force…
Originally designed to house only around 300,000 people, Freetown is struggling to meet basic needs for housing, electricity, sewage and water.
By Eromo Egbejule
FREETOWN - Augustine Deen, a 31-year-old officer with the Sierra Leone Police Force, was on night duty at his post in Freetown, counting down the hours, when disaster struck.
In the early m…
The seventh report in Plan’s annual State of the World’s Girls series, ‘In Double Jeopardy’, looks at what happens to adolescent girls in disasters and why. Using original research and the voices of girls themselves, it shows how adolescent girls’ rights are being ignored
before, during and after disasters, both in the urgency of a disaster response, an…
On 16 June, the EU Resilience Forum 2016 will bring together representatives from donor organisations, civil society groups, think-tanks and partner countries, to discuss how to reduce vulnerabilities in risk-prone environments and to help local populations withstand and recover from disasters.
EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management…