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'Huge risks remain for 2010 flood victims in Pakistan'

According to a report recently published by Oxfam, 'two to five million people are likely to be affected by floods during this year’s monsoon season, according to the UN and Pakistani authorities' reports Ayesha Sadaf Khan for Newsline, who calls for long-term investment in disaster risk reduction, strengthened governance, and hazard mapping, among other efforts...

Newsline Publications (Pvt.) Ltd.
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Oxfam: Eighteen months after the earthquake in Haiti

Angela Bruce Raeburn shares her experience with a group of Haitian people who worked as volunteers on a disaster risk reduction committee with the local authorities and explains the purpose of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) - a call to strengthen the Haitian voices that could call for their government's accountability...

Oxfam International Secretariat
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'Catástrofes naturales dejan 2,500 muertos en México'

La Crónica de Hoy reporta sobre el un programa con el propósito de reducir el riesgo de ocurrencia de desastres ante el impacto de fenómenos naturales - acciones para desincentivar la ocupación de suelo en zonas de riesgo, obras y acciones para la reducción y mitigación de riesgos, y acciones de conservación del medio natural...

La Crónica de Hoy
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UN chief to visit Japan nuclear disaster zone

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urges that the damage at the Fukushima nuclear plant serve as a reminder that even the best-prepared nations need to improve their capacity to prevent and cope with such disasters...

IBNLive, CNN-IBN
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S Korea: President Lee vows to overhaul disaster-prevention systems, tighten safety standards

In the wake of deadly landslides and flooding attributed to climate change, said President Lee Myung-bak, 'the government's priorities include comprehensive reexamination of existing disaster-prevention systems and strengthening the safety and disaster prevention standards'...

Yonhap News Agency
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Op-ed: Disaster preparedness secures APEC's growth

APEC echoes the need for emergency preparedness to ensure the economic vitality of the Asia-Pacific region and reminds Member states that 'the first line of defense of disaster management lies in preparedness and training.'...

Continuity Central, Portal Publishing Ltd
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'Natural disaster loss equals financial crisis'

The loss due to natural disasters is 1% on average of Asia Pacific GDPs, reports VIVAnews, quoting an Indonesian BNPB spokesperson: 'We need to increase the allocation of these funds, or develop a mechanism of post-disaster funding systems...'

VIVAnews, VIVA Media Group
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Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management: 'Natural disaster deaths decrease'

The region's 200 national and regional disaster risk management stakeholders gather at the 3rd Session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management to endorse a roadmap for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation...

Fiji Times