UNISDR chief marks anniversary of 7.8 Pakistan earthquake which killed 19,000 schoolchildren and their teachers with a call for more countries to join Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools.
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UNISDR chief marks anniversary of 7.8 Pakistan earthquake which killed 19,000 schoolchildren and their teachers with a call for more countries to join Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools.
This document was prepared following the recent Nepal earthquake, reflecting on lessons learned in Pakistan, which may be of use to those involved in the early stages of response and recovery in Nepal.
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Women are essential players for effective risk assessment, early warning, and strengthening of disaster resilience. This tip sheet offers guidelines for gender mainstreaming in disaster risk and recovery efforts.
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The world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets to extreme disaster events.
Poor communities in Senegal's capital city Dakar fare the worst when natural disasters hit because of their location in flood prone zones. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Senegal is vulnerable to disasters including flooding, drought, land degradation, rising sea levels and locust infestation In 2009, floods...
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DESTACADOS: PARAGUAY: Las autoridades estiman que aún hay 10,000 familias en necesidad alimentaria. CUBA: Un inusual brote de cólera en la provincia de Granma ha dejado tres muertos. PERÚ: Las autoridades han movilizado más de 92,000 frazadas a las zonas afectadas por las heladas.
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HIGHLIGHTS: PERU: Cold Weather affects about 11,665 people in the Andean region. MEXICO: Hurricane Carlotta affected more than 12,000 families in the state of Oaxaca BOLIVIA: More than 720 confirmed cases of influenza AH1N1.
Pakistan has faced a series of displacement crises due to natural disasters and armed conflict in recent years. 19 million people have been displaced by earthquakes and flooding and over five million by armed conflict over the past seven years. In December 2011, more than half a million people were...
ISLAMABAD, 12 August 2011 (IRIN) - Most people in Pakistan and around the world have forgotten the victims of the 8 October 2005 earthquake which killed 73,000 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province (KP). Other disasters have since intervened such as the 2010...
PREFACE Older Persons 7%2 (of the total population) and persons with disabilities 10%3 (of the total population) equaling at least 3 million persons affected by the floods. Due to the massive extent of the floods and ensuing crisis, and relying on repeated past experience of such crises, persons...