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28 Mar 2012
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Afghanistan
ESCAP to support Afghanistan transition from conflict to development

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Dushanbe (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The United Nations stands ready to support Afghanistan’s transition from conflict to development by helping to connect it with the regional engines of economic growth, the world body’s top Asia-Pacific official told a forum of international stakeholders here.

20 Feb 2012
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Philippines (the)
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South-East Asian Nations Call for Greater Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction to Protect Economic Growth

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South-East Asian Nations Call for Greater Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction to Protect Economic Growth Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The 2011 floods that caused unprecedented devastation across South-East Asia have highlighted the need for stepped up investment in disaster risk reduction to protect social and economic assets, top government officials from the subregion agreed at a United Nations forum here today.

17 Feb 2012
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World
Accelerating Equitable Achievement of the MDGs: Closing the Gaps in Health and Nutrition Outcomes

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Date: 17 February 2012
Press Release No. G/06/2012

Asia-Pacific makes big gains against poverty, but slow to reduce hunger, child and maternal deaths

New Delhi (UNESCAP / UNDP) – The Asia-Pacific region has made big gains in reducing poverty and is moving fast towards other development goals, but still has high levels of hunger as well as child and maternal mortality, said a new report released here today.

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06 Feb 2012
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Bangladesh
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Asia-Pacific Governments seek ways to accelerate action towards an HIV/AIDS-free region

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Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – Government leaders, senior officials, civil society representatives and people living with HIV from 34 Asia-Pacific countries began three days of talks at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Headquarters in Bangkok today to find ways to speed up progress towards an AIDS-free region, including by removing legal and policy barriers that hamper access to HIV services.

27 Jan 2012
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Myanmar
Myanmar & ESCAP Forge Framework for Public Private Partnerships Top UN Asia-Pacific official meets with Myanmar President

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Press Release No. G/01/2012

26 January 2012

YANGON, Myanmar (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) - Following recent positive developments in Myanmar, the top United Nations Asia-Pacific official met with the President of Myanmar, H.E. U Thein Sein, at the outset of a two-day Government of Myanmar-ESCAP forum that will discuss the development of public private partnerships in responding to Myanmar’s development challenges.

20 Dec 2011
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Japan
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Aftermath of Japanese tsunami offers learning opportunities for disaster preparedness

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Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – As Japan continues to recover from the worst earthquake and tsunami in its history, experts and policy makers from Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Tokyo to discuss lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

The meeting, held from 16 to 18 December, was jointly organized by ESCAP and the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre and the International Recovery Platform.

07 Dec 2011
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World
United Nations urges Asian media leaders to help promote climate-friendly, inclusive growth

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Singapore (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The United Nations today called on Asian media leaders to engage proactively on climate change issues to persuade governments, business and the public to accept choices needed to transform current unsustainable growth patterns into environment-friendly and socially inclusive development in the region.

29 Oct 2011
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Thailand
United Nations supports flood crisis management in Thailand with real-time satellite data

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Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – Responding to a request from the Government of Thailand, the United Nations, working with international partners, is enabling national disaster management authorities to have more frequent access to satellite imagery capturing flood wave dynamics for improved monitoring of and response to the country’s worst flooding in decades.

18 Oct 2011
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Thailand
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ESCAP expresses solidarity with flood victims in Thailand and South-East Asia

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Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The top United Nations official in the Asia-Pacific region today expressed grave concern over the unprecedented loss of life and livelihoods caused by heavy monsoon rains and tropical storms in South-East Asia and reiterated continued United Nations support to affected countries in improving resilience to natural disasters.

16 Sep 2011
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Afghanistan
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Women must have a greater role in conflict-prevention and peacebuilding in Asia-Pacific

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Date: 16 September 2011
Press Release No: G/43/2011

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The Asia-Pacific region, which is confronted with a number of conflicts, needs to recognize more fully the central role of women in conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding processes, a forum, organized here by the United Nations said.

06 Jul 2011
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Sound governance crucial for sustainable water management, ESCAP chief tells South-East Asian countries

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Date: 4 July 2011 Press Release No: G/28/2011

Singapore (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – Sound governance is crucial for sustainable management of water resources threatened by pollution, natural disasters and climate change, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Dr. Noeleen Heyzer told a forum of South-East Asian countries here today.

01 Jul 2011
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Afghanistan
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Asia-Pacific countries agree on ways to step up cooperation on disaster risk reduction

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Date: 1 July 2011
Press Release No: G/27/2011

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – Asia-Pacific countries ended three days of talks at a United Nations forum here today, agreeing to work more closely together on disaster risk reduction and make this central to national development strategies.

29 Jun 2011
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Japan
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Unprecedented disasters are threatening economic recovery and need regional response, ESCAP tells Asia-Pacific countries

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Date: 29 June 2011
Press Release No: G/25/2011

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – An increase in extreme weather events and unprecedented natural calamities have set back Asia-Pacific economic recovery and development gains and require a joint regional response, the United Nations told a meeting of 31 countries here today.

31 Mar 2011
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China
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Rising food prices and inflation in the Asia-Pacific region: causes, impact and policy response

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High food prices prevented nearly 20 million people emerge from poverty in Asia and the Pacific

ESCAP study warns food inflation can delay MDG 1 achievement by 5 years

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Information Services) - High food prices prevented 19.4 million people in the Asia-Pacific region from climbing out of poverty last year and persisting food and oil inflation can keep up to an extra 42 million people poor in the region, a new United Nations study released today said.

An assessment by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) warns that rising food

07 Mar 2011
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World
United Nations, Thailand agree to expanded scope for disaster preparedness fund

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New ESCAP agreement expands the scope of the former Tsunami Trust Fund to cover multiple coastal hazards in the world's most disaster prone region

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Information Services) - Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and H. E. Mr Kasit Piromya, Minster of Foreign Affairs for the Government of Thailand today signed an agreement expanding the reach of a regional tsunami trust fund, to now also include

16 Feb 2011
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Global Commission on HIV and the Law Reviews Legal Barriers Obstructing Progress on AIDS in Asia-Pacific

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Bangkok, 16 February 2011-Thirty years after the first cases of HIV were diagnosed, 90 percent of countries in the Asia-Pacific region still have laws and practices that obstruct the rights of people living with HIV and those at higher risk of HIV exposure.

As part of a global drive to remove barriers to progress in the AIDS response, policymakers and community advocates will join experts from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law in Bangkok on 17 February for the first in a series of regional dialogues to be held across the world.

The Global Commission on HIV and the

11 Nov 2010
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Pakistan
UN and Government of Pakistan Working Together to Protect Against Future Flood Damage

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Press Release No: G/58/2010

Regional High-Level Expert Group Meets to Reduce Flood Disaster Risk in PakistanBangkok (UN ESCAP Information Services) -- After unprecedented floods in Pakistan killed 1,974 people, damaged 1.65 million houses, and destroyed 2.24 million hectares of crop land earlier this year, the United Nations has continued to partner with of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to help the country increase flood resiliency.

The Regional High-Level Expert Group Meeting, organized by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for

26 Oct 2010
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Bangladesh
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First Asia-Pacific Disaster Report Launched by ESCAP and ISDR in Icheon, Republic of Korea

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Date: 26 October 2010

Press Release No: G/53/2010

Incheon, Republic of Korea (UN ESCAP Information Services) - People in the Asia-Pacific region are four times more likely to be affected by natural disasters than those in Africa and 25 times more likely than those in Europe or North America, says a UN report released here today at the Fourth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR).

The first of its kind, the Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2010 report (available

01 Oct 2010
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World
Protecting Development Gains: Reducing Disaster Vulnerability and Building Resilience in Asia and the Pacific - The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report, 2010

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The Asia-Pacific region has had to cope with an unprecedented number of disasters. In all cases, - from Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh, Bhutan and India, Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan Province of China, back-to-back Typhoons Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines, Viet Nam, Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic and Cambodia, the Padang earthquake in Indonesia, the Samoa earthquake and subsequent Pacific tsunami disaster, the heat waves and rampant wildfires in Australia and the Russian Federation, the "dzud" in Mongolia, the earthquake in Qinghai Province in China,
16 Sep 2010
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Bangladesh
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UN ESCAP launches Drought Monitoring and Early Warning Cooperative Mechanism in Nanjing

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BANGKOK (UN/ESCAP Information Services)-- The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), today launched in to service a Regional Cooperative Mechanism on Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Nanjing, China.

The Mechanism provides satellite products for general drought monitoring and higher resolution products for identified high drought risk areas, and assists its members in developing localized products and services for relevant decision making. Space capable countries in the region committed to provide satellite information based technical