Fact Sheet

BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR

April 19, 2013

OVERVIEW

Natural hazards such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, wildfires, and extreme winter weather affect a range of countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia (EMCA). In addition, rapid urban growth and environmental degradation in some countries have led to overcrowding and settlement in hazard-prone areas. Protracted conflict and limited governmental disaster management capacity in many EMCA countries compound the risks associated with natural disasters.

PARIS — Aggressive new strains of wheat rust disease have decimated up to 40 percent of harvests in some regions of north Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, researchers said Wednesday.

The countries most affected are Syria and Uzbekistan, with Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Iran, Morocco, Ethiopia and Kenya also hit hard, they reported at a scientific conference in Aleppo, Syria.

The issue of rising food prices came to international attention in early 2008. This document answers the following questions about the crisis and responses to it:

• What has happened to food prices and why?
• Why are food prices important & where can we find them?
• How have countries and the international community responded?
• The future

Documents officiels

Soixante-cinquième session

Supplément no 12

I. Introduction

1. Près de soixante ans après la création du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés par l'Assemblée générale en décembre 1950, les déplacements forcés de population restent un problème mondial majeur dont l'ampleur et la complexité vont croissantes. Les grandes tendances mondiales actuelles - notamment la croissance démographique, l'urbanisation, l'insécurité alimentaire et énergétique, la pénurie d'eau

An estimated 15,000 people - most of whom are children - have been displaced by recent clashes in and around Al-Hauta village in Shabwah Governorate in southern Yemen, according to UNICEF.

Over the past few weeks, there has been a steady increase in violent clashes, including air strikes, between government troops and armed groups in the area. UNICEF said that children have been injured in the fighting and continue to be at risk from unexploded ordnances, landmines and other explosive remnants of war. In addition, schools that

El estado de la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo 2009 es el 10.=BA informe de situación de la FAO sobre el hambre en el mundo desde la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Alimentación (CMA) de 1996. En el informe se destaca el hecho de que, incluso antes de que se produjeran la crisis alimentaria y la crisis económica, el n=FAmero de personas que padecían hambre había aumentado lenta pero constantemente. Sin embargo, el inicio de estas crisis provocó el incremento pronunciado del n=FAmero de personas que padecen hambre en el mundo.

Como resultado de la crisis económica

As of 29 August 2009, 5,031 laboratory-confirmed cases x xof Pandemic (H1N1) were reported to WHO by 21 out of 22 Member States of WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. A total of 524 of these reported cases were locally transmitted, and there have been 21 deaths in: Egypt (1), Iraq (1), Islamic Republic of Iran (1), Kuwait (4), Lebanon (1), Oman (6), Palestine (1), Saudi Arabia (4), Qatar (1) and Yemen (1). Algeria has also reported 33 cases with no deaths. For more information please

- "In the context of conflict prevention, forced displacement remains a major challenge, as does the protection of