A lake created by a landslide in northwest Pakistan continued growing throughout the month of May 2010. The lake extended northward up the Hunza River, past the settlements of Gulmit and Shishkot. Meanwhile, the risk of a breach continued growing, according to David Petley of the International Landslide Centre in the United Kingdom. On June 1, 2010, Petley warned that the landslide lake was eroding the landslide mass instead of the excavated material, and that downstream communities should prepare for a rapid breach.
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission

Little is known about how governments learn best or what exactly makes them change their behavior in a targeted way. When governments perform poorly, the consequences are wasted resources; undelivered services; and denial of social, legal, and economic protection for citizens, especially the poor. Thus, it is important that governments learn from past practices to avoid mistakes and to adopt successful practices from others, and that they continuously acquire new knowledge to make them more efficient and relevant. Because the process of learning in governmental

In 2009, IDMC monitored the situation of internally displaced people in 54 countries, making information and analysis available on its website, highlighting the specific vulnerabilities of IDPs and identifying gaps in the response to their protection and assistance needs.

IDMC continued to advocate for displaced populations who had specific needs not being met, because their government was denying that they were displaced; their access to protection and assistance was impeded by insecurity or restrictions on the movement of humanitarian agency personnel; or because

Le Comité d'Aide Médicale (CAM) est une ONG humanitaire à but non lucratif, créée en 1990, dont le mandat est le soutien médical aux populations affectées par des conflits armés, des désastres naturels ou d'autres types de crises humanitaires. Le CAM développe ses programmes en Asie, en Afrique et en France, en partenariat avec les communautés locales dont il privilégie le renforcement des capacités. Nous travaillons également avec une organisation située aux États-Unis, le Medical Aid Committee qui soutient plusieurs de nos programmes.

Pour le Comité d'Aide Médicale, 2009