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21 Nov 2011

World + 9 others
Background report on law and disaster risk reduction at the community level (31IC/11/5.5.2) (EN/FR/SP/AR)

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— IFRC

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31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT

Geneva, Switzerland

28 November – 1 December 2011

Law and disaster risk reduction at the community level

Background report

Document prepared by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in consultation with the International Committee of the Red Cross

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21 Nov 2011

World + 8 others
Background report on progress in the implementation of the guidelines for the domestic facilitation and regulation of international disaster relief and initial recovery assistance (31IC/11/5.5.1) (EN/FR/SP/AR)

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— IFRC

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31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT

Geneva, Switzerland

28 November – 1 December 2011

Background report

Document prepared by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in consultation with the International Committee of the Red Cross

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30 Jul 2011

Somalia + 3 others
Food Security Crisis in the Horn of Africa: How to Help (EN/AR)

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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BACKGROUND

■ 12.4 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance in Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.

■ Famine has been declared in five regions of South Central Somalia and refugees continue to flee into Kenya and Ethiopia.

■ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has made a global appeal for everyone to do what they can to bridge the US$1.1 billion still required by aid agencies to reduce the loss of life.

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29 Jul 2011

Somalia + 3 others
UN calls for a further $US 1.4 bn to assist more than 12 million people across Horn of Africa (EN/AR)

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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(New York/Geneva, 29 July, 2011) The United Nations today appealed for a further $1.4 billion dollars to provide life-saving assistance to more than 12 million people across the Horn of Africa.

In a new regional overview, the UN warned that the famine in two regions of Somalia could spread throughout the rest of the south within 1-2 months, if the humanitarian response did not increase in line with rising needs.

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23 Jul 2011

Somalia + 3 others
Horn of Africa Drought Crisis Factsheet 22 July 2011 (EN/AR)

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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The crisis at a glance

• On 20 July, a famine was declared in southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia.

• Eight other regions of southern Somalia are at risk of famine in the coming 1-2 months unless aid response increases in proportion to needs.

• 11.6 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa region.

• Refugee influxes from Somalia into Kenya and Ethiopia continue, with an exodus of 3,500 people a day arriving in the past week in areas of Ethiopia and Kenya.

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19 Jul 2011

Somalia + 3 others
Key messages on Somalia - 19 July 2011 (EN/AR)

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia

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Two regions of southern Somalia are currently facing famine. Malnutrition rates are above 50 per cent in some of the districts and tens of thousands of people have already died for reasons related to malnutrition in the last few months. In the first half of 2011, the number of people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance increased by over a million to some 3.7 million people, almost half of the people living in Somalia. If humanitarian agencies do not intervene now, famine will spread to the whole of southern Somalia within two months.

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