By David Tereshchuk*

November 5, 2012—As the Northeast United States recovers from Hurricane Sandy, and massive support to rebuild devastated lives is mobilized from near and far, it’s clear that even developed nations can learn from the experience of their still-developing neighbors, where vulnerability to natural disasters can be even greater.

Posted by Alan Whelan

Below I've picked 11 of our most striking photos from a busy 2011, representing Trócaire's work responding to emergencies in Haiti, East Africa and Pakistan and our long term development work in Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine and Zimbabwe.

Somalia

GENEVA (8 March 2011) - UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik warned Tuesday that human rights standards and particularly the right to adequate housing are not being translated into concrete policies in post-conflicts and post-disaster reconstruction processes.

"This has disastrous consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable," Ms. Rolnik said in her annual report* to the Human Rights Council, "and is particularly alarming

16=BA período de sesiones

Tema 3 de la agenda

Promoción y protección de todos los derechos humanos, civiles, políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales, incluido el derecho al desarrollo

Resumen

El presente informe, presentado de conformidad con la resolución 6/27 del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, subraya la importancia de integrar las normas de derechos humanos y en particular el derecho a una vivienda adecuada en los procesos de reconstrucción posteriores a desastres y conflictos. Aunque se tienen en cuenta las diferencias existentes entre

1.1 Overview

Learning from Recovery after Hurricane Mitch is a review of how Nicaragua has recovered from Hurricane Mitch over the past decade. The focus is on how the assumptions and claims that were made in the initial recovery planning have proven relevant in light of subsequent development. The intention is to consider the aid response in the perspective of the broader trends that have driven recovery, including household, community and government initiatives and the wider economic and market related context. The research brings to light the different

When Hurricane Stan hit Guatemala and El Salvador, women organized emergency evacuations and set up feeding stations. As Hurricane Mitch pummeled Nicaragua and Honduras, triggering flash floods and mudslides, women began counting the missing.

More recently, amid deadly and unpredictable violence in Mogadishu, women are setting up tiny health clinics. They're also staging water collection sites in the Somali capital and choosing

Pending a similar decision to be taken by the development network at the end of May, the new coalition, to be named the ACT Alliance, hopes to bring together close to 150 churches, agencies and other faith-based organisations with a combined budget of more than US$1.5 billion.

'United together'

Zambian-born ACT International director,

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Summary

This addendum is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 6/32 requesting the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (the Representative) to "continue, through continuous dialogue with Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned,

Maby López I DCA I A diez años de que el huracán Mitch devastara varias áreas del país, Guatemala tiene una mejor capacidad de respuesta para enfrentar desastres naturales, seg=FAn se dieron a conocer organizaciones del grupo Regional de Riesgo, Emergencia y Desastre de América Latina y El Caribe, en el estudio "Panorama de la tendencia de la gestión del riesgo de desastre en Centroamérica".