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Displaying 195 of about 1468 resultsThis paper introduces the “Peninsula principles on climate displacement”, which outlining the rights of people and communities who lose their homes, land and livelihoods due to the effects of climate change. It provides a comprehensive normative framework, based on principles of international law, human rights obligations and good practice, within which…
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…
This compendium presents good practices of the community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach implemented under a Disaster Preparedness project in the North and East of Sri Lanka, supported by the Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO). Learning drawn from the project is intended to be replicated and built into future interventions. The compendi…
"This incident puts in clear evidence the fragility of megacities in every aspect: physical, social, economic and ecological," said Fouad Bendimerad, head of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative, an international scientific organisation that analyses disaster risk, in an AFP report. "Many previous assumptions about the resiliency of megacities will…
Nairobi - To illustrate the lack of disaster preparedness across East Africa, a cartoon in a weekly newspaper lists, tongue in cheek, the six chapters of the region's disaster preparedness and management blueprint. These range from visits by political dignitaries to the scene of disaster, declaration of days of mourning, calls for foreign aid, rhetoric,…
By Necephor Mghendi and Afrhill Rances in Manila
One of the keys to protecting communities prone to climate-related hazards is integrating disaster risk reduction efforts with community-based risk management approaches. This was the message that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) took to governments, inter-gove…
Tbilisi, Georgia – The UN refugee agency has joined forces with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to launch a project that should ease the socio-economic integration of Chechen refugees in a poverty-stricken corner of Georgia as well as benefit their host communities. The project, in the Pankisi Gorge region, could become a model for other operations.…
In this article for the Financial Express, M Mizanur Rahman and Syed Shahnawaz Ali analyse the importance of having proper policy and development intervention for people frequently affected by disasters in Bangladesh. They report, "unfortunately for various reasons we are lagging behind in disaster management (...) there is a huge gap between research a…
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, said at the opening of the annual meeting in Geneva of UNHCR's governing Executive Committee that the international community needed to improve its adaptation to climate change and better manage natural disasters in order to prevent conflict, according to UNHCR.
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By Zoe Tabary
Many climate change adaptation and development efforts work in unstable countries - and that reality needs to be taken into account.
When Jean Vergain first travelled to Somalia in1992 as part of his work for the International Committee…
A series of explosions at a chemical plant in Texas following severe flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey highlight the risk of extreme weather-related industrial accidents and the urgent need to strengthen efforts for prevention and preparedness.
The explosions, which were caused by the loss of refrigeration to a warehouse storing highly volatile and e…
By Damian Carrington
Climate-related disasters increase the risk of armed conflicts, according to research that shows a quarter of the violent struggles in ethnically divided countries were preceded by extreme weather.
The role of severe heatwaves, floods and storms in increasing the risk of wars has been controversial, particularly in relation to the…
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…
This report documents findings from a retrospective analysis of two compound crises in the Horn of Africa to address key knowledge gaps related to compound risk. The linked crises occurred in Kenya and Ethiopia between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2018, when a severe drought was immediately followed by extensive flooding during the long rainy se…
Sudan is widely considered one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. It features consistently near the top of various vulnerability rankings—and for good reason. Not only is Sudan already among the hottest countries on Earth, it also experiences some of the highest rainfall variability in the world. This is true across much of northern, west…