The Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (JEU) is a collaborative arrangement between the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It responds to environmental emergencies by coordinating international efforts and mobilizing partners to support affected countries requesting assistance.

This map shows the worldwide distribution of natural disasters that occurred in 2012, according to Munich Re, NatCatSERVICE.

With more than 25,000 entries, NatCatSERVICE is one of the leading global databases for natural catastrophes. Every year between 800 and 1,000 loss events are recorded and analysed. In view of the information collated, the extent and intensity of individual natural hazard events in various parts of the world can be documented and used to analyse regional and global hazards as well as trends.

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Risk analysis company Maplecroft is releasing the sixth annual Human Rights Risk Atlas.

The Atlas evaluates 197 countries on 24 separate human rights violations to provide rankings of the best and worst offenders across the key areas of human security, labour rights, civil and political rights and judicial process.