Key facts as of 18 Mar (Source: grindavik.is) Emergency level alert re-issued on 16 Mar Road 43 impassable 3 Destroyed houses by lava flow of 14 Jan UCPM Prevention and Preparedness mission took...
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UNHCR Iceland Fact Sheet, February 2024
International protection: Iceland remains a favourable protection environment for forcibly displaced and stateless people. Increase of funding: Iceland has responded to rising displacement needs...
Iceland - Volcanic eruption (Icelandic Civil Protection, Icelandic Met Office, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 March 2024)
A volcanic eruption began on 16 March at 20.23 UTC between Mt. Hagafell and Mt. Stóra Skógfell on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southern Iceland. There are three eruptive opening fissures approximately...
Iceland | Volcanic eruption in Reykjanes peninsula - DG ECHO Daily Map | 20/12/2023
Key facts as of 20 Dec (Source: Iceland CP #1, #2, IV, IMO #1, #2) Alert upgraded from danger to emergency level Grindavík town, Blue Lagoon locality and Svartsengi power plant area evacuated when...
Iceland | Reykjanes peninsula volcanic unrest - DG ECHO Daily Map | 13/11/2023
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Global Child Nutrition Foundation Global Survey 2021: Republic of Iceland
SCHOOL MEAL/FEEDING PROGRAM(S) School year: 2020–2021 • School Meals Program Lead Agency: Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Le HCR se félicite de la décision de l’Islande de se joindre aux efforts mondiaux pour éliminer l’apatridie
Le HCR, l'Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, se félicite de l'adhésion de l'Islande aux Conventions des Nations Unies relatives à l'apatridie, les principaux traités internationaux pour...
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Iceland: Equal Reception Conditions for Resettled Refugees and Asylum Seekers
This week, a new proposal was put forward by the Icelandic Minister of Social Affairs that would ensure that asylum seekers who have been granted asylum in Iceland are afforded the same reception...
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Warm welcome for Syrian refugees in new Icelandic home
"I like it here, especially for my children. It's safe, everyone is friendly, and we're determined to stay" By Natasha Bowler REYKJAVIK, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Valgerour Halla came...
IOM Launches Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme in Iceland
Iceland - IOM this week launched an Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in cooperation with Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration. The AVRR programme aims at offering a...
Iceland: Location Map (2013)
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Campaign city Arborg adopts Jericho City as resilience 'twin'
By Dizery Salim GENEVA, 30 May 2012 - Earthquake and flood-prone Arborg, Iceland, a member of the 'Making Cities Resilient' campaign, is boosting the preparedness of its new twin - the Palestinian...
Iceland: Location Map (2010)
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GLOBAL: When volcanic ash gets in your way
JOHANNESBURG, 26 April 2010 (IRIN) - Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano - unlike Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the 20th century's second largest eruption - will not contribute to climate...
Iceland: volcanic eruption prompts European Red Cross response
Marie-Françoise Borel, IFRC European Red Cross Societies mobilized volunteers, staff and other resources to help people affected directly or indirectly by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier...
WHO: Patients with respiratory conditions more susceptible to effects of ash
16 APRIL, 2010 | GENEVA -- The ash cloud from the volcanic explosion in Iceland contains fine particles, similar to those emitted from other sources of particulate matter (PM); but as long as ash...
Iceland: Red Cross helps evacuees after volcanic eruption
By Tore Svenning, IFRC Around 700 people had to be evacuated in Iceland, following the eruption of the ice-covered volcano Eyjafjallajökull. On Wednesday, April 14, the Icelandic Red Cross...
Icelandic volcano eruption intensifies
15 Apr 2010 11:44:26 GMT REYKJAVIK, April 15 (Reuters) - A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6 km (3.7 mile) high cloud of ash and disrupted air traffic in northern Europe, has...
Volcano erupts under Iceland glacier, hundreds flee
14 Apr 2010 15:35:48 GMT * Floods from melting ice threaten highway, bridges * Authorities evacuate 700 from their homes (adds details) REYKJAVIK, April 14 (Reuters) - A volcanic eruption in Iceland...
Active Icelandic volcano may cause bigger eruption
REYKJAVIK, March 22 (Reuters) - A volcano spouting lava in the south of Iceland showed signs of increased activity on Monday, leading scientists to warn it could trigger a far more powerful eruption...